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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

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

Mr Morello, who represents West Dorset, has written about the importance of the Farming Resilience Fund on the mental health of farmers, and why it is wrong that the scheme will come to an end

Farmers Guardian's head of livestock sales and markets Angela Calvert reflects on the sustained upward trend in beef prices

Rob Black said often tenants make assumptions of their landlords and vice versa. He said there was a need for more ‘genuine conversations’ encouraging landlords and tenants to ‘sit down and talk to each other’

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

Rod Cordingley, a valuation and asset management specialist at Stephensons Rural, breaks down the changes and provides essential guidance for farmers facing the new tax environment

Mr Taylor writes about changes to ABR and BPR, alongside the revenue it will raise for the Treasury

Simon Nelson advises farmers on a wide range of arable and forage crops across Cumbria, north Lancashire and into south west Scotland

Phillip Morgan, from Powys, reflects on the value of common land and grazing rights over his lifetime