Opinion

"In order to make farms more sustainable, farmers have faced heightened pressure to diversify or change their practices to attain another income stream"

Liz Tree, 25, is a farmer from Croydon in South London: "My own experiences of seeing farms at a young age had completely changed the course of my life"

Dr Marius Ostrowski, executive director of the Lifelong Learning Institute, said the agri-food sector 'needs significant investment in the qualifications and skills system which are the backbone of the UK's future productivity'

Rachel Barr, 20, from Dumfries and Galloway, is a beef and sheep farmer

George Elliott, 23, is a farmer from Ashbourne in Derbyshire

Having attended the recent G7 chief vets forum in Japan, chief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss discussed some of the most difficult animal health challenges facing the farming industry today – including avian influenza, African swine fever and antimicrobial resistance

Hannah Cuthbert, 24, is a farmer from Lincolnshire