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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

Dana Bradley-Allen, 17, is from Barnsley in South Yorkshire and she is studying a Level 2 Agriculture course at Barnsley College's Wigfield Farm

This week from head of news and business Alex Black

The senior associate at law firm Roythornes Solicitors has written a blog on the importance of succession planning for farm businesses

I have recently been helping to chair the British Grassland Society Summer walks across Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex. I cannot help but think that activities like this are just the tonic most farmers need

I don't quite know where to start this month; the weather, milk prices, milk contract legislation or the new Government

Ms Berkeley, the Farm Safety Foundation's manager, has explained why Farm Safety Week should mark the beginning of a new chapter for safer farming

Sally Kitchiner, 24, is a veterinary surgeon at Hampden Vets. She is from Shillington in Bedfordshire.

The Shadow Farming, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary said the Welsh Conservative's new alternative to the Sustainable Farming Scheme could give Welsh farmers their future back

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley