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Chris Dodds on fair prices and illegal imports

"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"

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

Plans for farmer-led committee to discuss research and funding opportunities

Growers urged to inspect condition before autumn planting

The Livestock Auctioneer's Association has launched MartSafe 3.0, a third year of its training programme for livestock market staff

From an auctioneer's advice on when to sell livestock this summer to how Farm Safety Week can mark the beginning of a new chapter for safer farming- these are six farming stories not to miss this week on FG

Sheep farmers are gearing up for the return of the NSA's flagship event, as the Three Counties Showground in Worcestershire prepares to open its gates for NSA Sheep 2024

Dan Jones farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm, which sits on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno. His Farm Business Tenancy covers the 58 hectares (143 acres) at Parc Farm, plus 364ha (900 acres) of grazing rights on the hill