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Tori Squire, 22, is a third-generation beef and sheep farmer from Newton Abbot in Devon

As part of an exclusive 12-month blog for Farmers Guardian, the new cohort of youngsters on the McDonald's Progressive Young Farmer programme talk about their hopes for the future and the impact they can make. Here we hear from Hamish Landale, from Crieff, Scotland

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Simon Britton, chair of the Society of Agriculture, discusses the need for farming to strengthen professional standards, leadership and independent expertise to support better decision-making and long-term resilience, alongside traditional industry representation

David Exwood, NFU deputy president speaks about mental health during Mind Your Head Week

Horsham MP John Milne said mental well-being support in rural communities must be treated as a part of farming infrastructure, adding that NHS services must be accessible and delivered in ways which understands the rural way of life

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

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

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Joshua Hoopes, chief executive of Fevara

Exmoor Farmers Livestock Auctions company manager Peter Huntley discusses a strong year’s trade

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones