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From Dairy Farmer editor, Katie Jones.

This week's letters from Farmers Guardian readers

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

Well it's wet. I can only hope by the time you read this it's dry, or we're all in trouble

At the time I pitched this article, Defra announced changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive to ensure that food production remained the primary purpose of farming – I think that farmers already know this is the purpose

This month Roger Evans discusses after dinner speaking, water pollution and tells a tale of how a farmer got the better of the tax man

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley (April 18)

In Somerset, spring is trying to show its face between the rain showers. The warmer weather that we enjoyed recently gave us good growth rates of 34kg of dry matter/hectare per day

Last year we fenced off a stream gully which runs through the middle of the farm