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This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Dairy farmer and equestrian centre owner in Cheshire - Phil Latham

This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley

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

"Flooding and bluetongue disease is placing a financial and physical strain on farmers"

Isabel Chennells, 25, is chair of Collingham Young Íæż½ã½ã' Club and she is from Lincoln. She is a land agent at Brown and Co

"Bluetongue can have serious consequences for farmers"

In a blog for Íæż½ã½ã, shepherdess and top dog trialler Emma Gray talks organic lamb and the drama at the Scottish National sheepdog trials

As I flew home from my nine weeks of individual Nuffield travel in New Zealand, China, Chile and North America, studying the topic of ‘Inspiring the next generation of dairy entrepreneurs', I found myself asking: 'What have I learned?'

'We should not be having a niggle at regen farmers when actually our future growers and our future members are going to come from that pool of people'

Charlotte Harris, 21, is a shepherdess from Strathaven in South Lanarkshire. She now runs her own equine and shepherdess business in Scotland