Politics

Farmers Guardian’s Tom Ryder, hailing from a Cumbria-based family with a history in pedigree livestock breeding, reflects on how the Government’s proposed Inheritance Tax reforms risk overlooking the human realities behind the numbers

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Cross-party rural MPs issue heartfelt appeal for the Government to meet farmers and reconsider its planned agricultural tax changes

Meat supply chain chiefs from around the world have convened in Cuiaba, Brazil, for the World Meat Congress. Olivia Midgley reports

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

Earlier this year Farmers Guardian partnered with Soil Ed, a campaign to get farming, food and nature embedded onto the national curriculum. Last week campaigners took the fight for rural education to London as the first roundtable discussion took place

Bridgwater MP Sir Ashley Fox said the money could have been better used to help farmers dredge rivers and alleviate pressure communities face with flooding

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart says Labour’s proposals risk tearing apart the ‘very fabric of rural communities’

Radmore Farm’s Ben Aveling has urged the Prime Minister to rethink plans for Inheritance Tax and said the countryside must remain in the hands of family farmers, not ‘massive corporations’

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones