Farm Business

Gwynfor Davies, via email, on farmers becoming dependent on Government support

In order to receive agricultural support payments under the Preparing for Sustainable Farming scheme, Scottish farmers must prove how they are lowering emissions and improving biodiversity on-farm

Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, Wendy Chamberlain, accused the Government of failing to consider the impact of its proposed IHT changes on Scottish tenant farmers, despite raising the problem ‘four times in the last three months'

Amanda Watson, from North Yorkshire, said on her family's upland beef and sheep farm land was everything and 'not an asset on paper', but the 'foundation' of their entire business

Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner told farmers at the Norfolk Farming Conference ‘the Budget is as the Budget is' and it was not going to change

Treasury urged to work together to consider whether its IHT policy could be 'recalibrated' and a 'few tweaks' could be made to both support family farms and close loopholes to maintain pressure on 'landbankers'

General public must be aware of what we could lose if farms are forced to go, says organiser

Scenes from the farmer protest against Inheritance Tax changes in Whitehall on Monday (February 10)

Around 20 wild boar have been seen in woodlands near Kingussie in the Cairngorms National Park

Scotland's First Minister John Swinney has backed proposals for a new state-of-the-art abattoir in Orkney