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Phil Warham has been an agronomist with Agrovista for six years. He gained a degree in Land and Farm Management at Harper Adams and managed farms for several years afterwards. He now advises on combinable crops, cereals, maize and vining peas in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and into Leicestershire. Key interests include direct drilling and soil health, as well as making farms profitable. In his spare time he is a keen runner, cyclist and horseman.

Murray Craig, 23, is a beef and sheep farmer in Penrith, Cumbria

George Swann is an independent agronomist, member of Arable Alliance and proud member of the Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC). He covers south Yorkshire, north Nottinghamshire and north Lincolnshire. George has a BSc (Hons) degree in Biology, is BASIS and FACTS qualified and also has BASIS Advanced Potatoes. George's expertise lies in helping his clients achieve maximum output whilst remaining as economical and sustainable as possible for the future.

This month Roger Evans writes about the problems caused by dogs running free on farmland, and also gives us his thoughts on early mornings

Becky Fenton and husband Paul milk 200 pedigree Holsteins under the Springlebee prefix at Centenary Farm, a Cheshire county council farm. In 2021, they bought a farm in Staffordshire and they plan to farm there once the new dairy set-up has been built

This week's letters from Farmers Guardian readers.

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 ha (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on site from their orchards. She is a Mum of two, runs ‘Kate’s Country School’ on farm and is the Woodland Creation Officer for Stump Up For Trees. 

Mid-August and the weather continues to challenge us; in our case for silage making. Sneaking odd days is the best we have managed but quantity and quality have been surprisingly good for late summer.  

Georgia Brown, 20, is a sheep farmer from Belper in Derbyshire