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This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Oxford Real Farming Conference manager, Hester van Hensbergen

Demand continues to outstrip supply despite political challenges

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

Thirty pupils from Birmingham-based schools were given the opportunity to gain an interactive insight into what a career in agriculture could look like for them

Take a look at LAMMA Show over the years

WRAG reissues crop protection guidelines for farmers

Attention to detail is essential when lambing indoors, says Gwyn James, of Nettex

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

Harry Bowell is Director of Land and Nature at the National Trust

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm