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This week from Farmers Guardian acting editor Katie Jones

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees.

This week from Farmers Guardian's editor Olivia Midgley

Groups says years of 'economic neglect' means there is everything to play for at General Election

The Countryside Alliance has called for an overhaul of the way police prioritise rural crimes, including fly-tipping, agricultural machinery theft, hare poaching, and trespassing

George Eustice has compared the proposed ban on new oil boilers to the controversial Ultra Low Emissions Zone and highlighted 1.7 million rural homes would be affected

Farming organisations have congratulated Humza Yousaf on winning the Scottish leadership election race to become Scotland’s new First Minister.