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This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley

In an exclusive for Íæż½ã½ã, Steve Barclay says that Labour simply do not understand food and farming

Former Liberal Democrat Leader and candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron has slammed the Tory and Labour attitude to farming in his opinion piece for Íæż½ã½ã

Welsh Conservative Shadow Rural Affairs Minister James Evans has written a blog for Íæż½ã½ã outlining his party's backing for the farming community, agriculture's vital role to Wales and Labour's Sustainable Farming Scheme

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.

It has been a late season here in Cornwall with the rain and cold weather delaying the progress of everything

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

Ms Hacking will be standing as a Conservative candidate in Ashton-under-Lyne at the General Election

Calving got under way without incident this year at Houghton Lodge and by the end of February we had successfully delivered over 60 per cent of our calvings