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Auctioneer at Hawes Auction Mart, Ian Atkinson discusses this year's autumn sheep sales

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Gus Saunders M.Sc. Welsh farmer and naturalist, looks back on his 65-year farming career

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, at Constantine, Cornwall, where they milk 130 cows and supply Saputo. Total cattle numbers stand at 420 head kept on 162 hectares (400 acres). Alan and his wife Sarah have two children, Ross and Dana and the family also run three self-catering holiday lets

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

Head of news and business Alex Black discusses farming's value after comments from the Welsh First Minister

This week from Farmers Guardian acting editor Katie Jones

NFU vice-president Rachel Hallos has written exclusively for Farmers Guardian on why it is so important for young children to learn about the vital role of farming in the national curriculum

Sian Grove is a first generation shepherdess from Newport on the Isle of Wight. She discusses Young Farmers' Clubs, life without local abattoir infrastructure and the importance of agricultural shows

Founder of Food, Farming, Education, Olivia Shave is calling for farming and nature to be at the heart of the curriculum

Following last month’s Spending Review, the silence around Government’s attitude to farming has been deafening, says Maddie Dunn, legal director at international law firm, Charles Russell Speechlys