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Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Despite managing to save a majority of the farmer's livestock, Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team said a small number had died during the incident

Farms around the country experienced snowfall this weekend

Farmers across the country count cost as fourth named storm tore through UK

"Safety for farmers, family members and workers should always be the number one priority. And while fully understanding the pressures farmers are under, it is vital they avoid taking risks which could lead to injury or fatalities"

According to Defra, around 13,000 farmers were impacted by severe wet weather, including Storms Henk and Babet, between October and March last year

Devon and Wales face record rainfall as 172 flood alerts remain in place across UK

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana