This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: John McArthur, managing director, McArthur BDC
Olivia Shave is the founder of farming education campaign Soil Ed, which aims to get sustainability, farming and food onto the national curriculum. Over the last two years, the campaign has gained cross-party support and multiple high-profile ambassadors
Dan and his family own and run the 300-hectare (741-acre) Cockhaise Farm, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. The farm is home to an organic autumn-calving herd of 240 Holstein and Friesian crosses. He also contract farms another organic autumn-calving herd of 220 cows at Bore Place, near Edenbridge, Kent
This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Duncan Pickard, Balmullo, Scotland, discusses the risks of illegal meat imports and the lessons from past foot-and-mouth outbreaks, questioning whether the UK is now better prepared to respond