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Matthew Rollason, 24, is from Great Harwood, Lancashire. He works in the agri-food research and development team for Dunbia. He has also established New Dawn Herefords and is an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador.

Emma Harper, SNP MSP, is a dairy farmer’s daughter from Dumfries and Galloway and has been instrumental in toughening up Scottish laws around livestock worrying.

As I sit and write this, the children have returned to school.

As the world battled Covid-19, Chhattisgarh, an Indian state, took on a new initiative to promote rural livelihoods along with organic farming.

You could be forgiven for thinking it was March. Cooler temperatures have somewhat hampered grass growth of late.

The promotion and marketing of agriculture has been a long-standing bugbear for many farmers. But just how does British farming build a brand that conveys trust and excellence to the public? Here, Richard Huntington, chairman and chief strategy officer at advertising giant Saatchi and Saatchi, explores the challenges and opportunities facing the British farming brand.

Meg Elliott on factors affecting confidence.

We have had our first Covid-19 vaccination, so there is light at the end of the tunnel and the Easter sunshine helped.

Abigail Woodhouse, 20, is from Ravenglass, Cumbria, and works full-time on her family’s dairy farm with her parents and older brother.

Wresting a living from a way of farming that is as old as the hills sees traditional shepherding combined with more modern thinking and, as one mother and daughter team told Gaina Morgan, it is about finding the balance.