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Dairy farmer, David Brooke, writes about his own journey towards retirement and how share farming has given him the opportunity to create a positive work/life balance.

The news of the sudden passing of dairy industry analyst Ian Potter was certainly a shock.

Emily Jones, 24, is a safety adviser with CXCS, based in Herefordshire.

We need to talk about the uplands. For years it has felt like farmers in the uplands have been fighting battles on all fronts.

Calving is well underway with our senior cow Julia kicking things off in mid-February with a lovely heifer calf.

Apart from our grass fields being animated by lambs and calves and the odd daffodil begrudgingly enduring the frosts, snow and rain, there are no obvious signs that spring is around the corner here just yet.

James Nixey, 26, is from Chinnor, Oxfordshire and works as a self-employed electrician while supporting and getting stuck in on the family’s mixed farm.

Headlines around food inflation have sparked a wider debate about the cost of food, namely, dare I say it, how cheap it is.  

Last year saw the first reduction in the amount of land rented to farmers since Farm Business Tenancies were introduced in 1995, according to Defra’s own figures.