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This week's letters from Íæż½ã½ã readers

Following an alarming rise in the cost of rural crime in the Midlands, NFU Mutual is set to advise police on the latest crime and security measures to protect farms

Unite the union has accused CNH of ‘time wasting and union busting’

There are times when you wonder what you are doing it all for

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees

Government-funded project aims to offer farmers route to diversification and business resilience

Íæż½ã½ã warned to be wary of cheap or unlabelled products

Ian farms in partnership with his family near Knutsford, Cheshire. They manage 700 commercial pedigree Holstein/Friesians on 445 hectares (1,100 acres). Replacements are homereared and cows are on a composite system. Ian is a representative for Sainsbury’s Dairy Development Group and sits on the AHDB Genetics Advisory Forum

Agronomists say T3 will be essential in controlling rusts and septoria

Paraffin oil product Olie-H can now be employed to help non-persistently transmitted potyviruses