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Stephen Ramsden, Harrogate, discusses UK food security following news that lamb and beef production have fallen significantly in recent decades

Readers had their say on Facebook following the news Asda was stocking Uruguayan beef in stores

Linda Jones, national manager, FCN Cymru, writes to encourage women in farming to take part in a research study on health and well-being which the FCN is conducting in collaboration with the University of Exeter

Sophie Gregory, Dorset, writes about her farm's upcoming Open Farm Sunday event

A poem by W.S. Towers on the current state of the farming industry

Alex Cotterill, a student at the University of Nottinghamshire, writes about rural crime and how it could be tackled

Ben Stanley, Derbyshire, writes about delayed SFI payments and how those who missed out should think themselves lucky

Richard Broadbent, an environmental lawyer at Freeths, writes that landowners require certainty, clarity and careful forward planning if we are to reverse the chronic biodiversity decline we have seen over the past 100 years

Cllr Alastair Redman, Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, writes about the continued decline of and 'serious investment' needed in rural services

Richard Barnett, of The Rural Partnership Group, Cheshire, responds to Andy Welford's Farming Matters column (FG, March 21) and shares his views on the Treasury's Inheritance Tax reforms