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This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Hilary Wilson, Appleby, highlights concerns about vegetation overgrowth following livestock removal and the importance of hill farming in maintaining biodiversity and landscape heritage

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Dr Hilary Cottam's review delivers 19 insights to help tackle challenges faced by upland communities

Grazing, rest and animal impact are three key areas to consider when applying regenerative agriculture to livestock systems

Dame Angela Eagle answers concerns on sheep disease, land use and the family farm tax

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

Members of the agricultural sector have shared their hopes for the long-awaited support package, ahead of a new statement

Defra announces rate increase to reward nature-friendly farming

The NFU said that with no legislative target for food production, it was the ‘poor relation' in negotiations and believed the Government was wrong to assume farm productivity levels would compensate for the loss of agricultural land

Government says plans to redefine 'deep peat' will protect human health and environment