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A new Farmers Guardian-backed campaign is aiming to secure a place for agriculture in our schools. Digital Editor Emily Ashworth explains why its time the Government paid attention

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

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Alicia Kearns MP for Rutland and Stamford