Education

Elle Slade has been encouraged to follow her own path on the family farm and has set up her own successful calf rearing business, whilst working part time at a nearby fattening unit

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the top stories from this week, including the Chancellor being accused of using Ministers as 'human shields' over Inheritance Tax changes, farmers take fate into their own hands by abandoning their SFI applications early despite waiting for offers to be made by the Government, APHA appoints former police chief as new chief executive, and Baroness Minette Batters asked to lead a review into farm profitability. Next week the latest on Donald Trump's trade tariffs and the impact on agriculture, new details revealed for the next stage of Johne's disease plan, and a petition to get farming on the curriculum aims to get 100k signatures

Last year Farmers Guardian joined a petition to urge the Government to embed food, farming and sustainability onto the national curriculum. with over 10,000 signatures, Government must respond

Helen Rebanks, best-selling author of The Farmer's Wife, is passionate about education and joined Farmers Guardian's joint petition to get farming into schools

Having already published numerous bestselling farm-inspired books, Kaleb Cooper is now set to publish his first children's book in the hope of encouraging kids to engage with agriculture

Many in the farming industry have long championed getting agriculture into schools - could now be the right time?

This week sheep farmer and founder of rural education petition Olivia Shave reflects on this week's decision from Defra, to halt 2024 Sustainable Farming Incentive applications

James Scott, 24, is a dairy farmer from Congleton in Cheshire. He writes about his farm and the power of education and telling farming stories through social media

Young farmer Coco Jalloh found her farming passion in high school and has since set her sights on making a career for herself in the industry

Online editor Emily Ashworth talks about the consumer perception of farming regarding the Inheritance Tax discussion