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Inheritance Tax updates
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Gov urged to use Autumn Budget to ease pressure on rural businesses
Farm Business

Gov urged to use Autumn Budget to ease pressure on rural businesses

Mia Willemsen
clock 01 November 2025 • 1 min read
Watch our latest webinar: One year on - Where are we on Inheritance Tax?
Events

Watch our latest webinar: One year on - Where are we on Inheritance Tax?

Farmers Guardian
clock 31 October 2025 • 1 min read
OPINION: "Is the Government seriously asking farmers to cover less than 0.5% of the UK's annual debt interest bill?"
Politics

OPINION: "Is the Government seriously asking farmers to cover less than 0.5% of the UK's annual debt interest bill?"

Tom Ryder
clock 30 October 2025 • 3 min read
'It's been hard lying in hospital thinking how to save my farm': Countryfile segment lays bare mental health toll of IHT reforms
Mental Health

'It's been hard lying in hospital thinking how to save my farm': Countryfile segment lays bare mental health toll of IHT reforms

Tom Ryder
clock 29 October 2025 • 4 min read
Latest News
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British food producers receive £100m export boost
Farm Business

British food producers receive £100m export boost

Defra praises work of agri-food attaches who have helped remove around 41 barriers to trade

clock 04 November 2025 • 2 min read
Defra to consider over 50 recommendations in Baroness Batters' Farm Profitability Review
Politics

Defra to consider over 50 recommendations in Baroness Batters' Farm Profitability Review

Can Baroness Minette Batters' 50,000 word report help to redefine the Government's relationship with the farming sector following its planned reforms to Inheritance Tax?

clock 03 November 2025 • 4 min read
Seasonal Worker Scheme visa allocation for farming sector confirmed
Farm Business

Seasonal Worker Scheme visa allocation for farming sector confirmed

NFU welcomes commitment to horticultural and poultry sector, but Defra says reliance on foreign workers is not a long-term solution

clock 03 November 2025 • 2 min read
Latest milk prices for dairy farmers: First Milk drop 6ppl
Farm Business

Latest milk prices for dairy farmers: First Milk drop 6ppl

Milk prices are continuing to fall in November and December

clock 03 November 2025 • 34 min read
51% of farmers consider leaving industry, McCain report finds
Farm Business

51% of farmers consider leaving industry, McCain report finds

Many fear family farms will disappear with 95% expecting a decline over the next decade if the current trajectory persists

clock 03 November 2025 • 4 min read
Waitrose partners with Soil Association Exchange and Regenified in regen farming drive
Farm Business

Waitrose partners with Soil Association Exchange and Regenified in regen farming drive

Nature friendly farming initiative will help all retailer's farmers be on regen path before 2030

clock 02 November 2025 • 2 min read
Farmers question how long beef's bull run can be sustained
Beef

Farmers question how long beef's bull run can be sustained

Beef prices have remained strong and stable during 2025, but the question on every producers’ lips is: will they remain so, especially given the prospect of more cull dairy cows coming onto the market and a weakening in sales

clock 02 November 2025 • 5 min read
Why have UK supermarket beef prices risen so much in 2025?
Beef

Why have UK supermarket beef prices risen so much in 2025?

Retail beef prices have seen a record 27.5% increase in the past year

clock 01 November 2025 • 2 min read
Avian flu ramps up in Europe
Poultry

Avian flu ramps up in Europe

Housing orders are in force across many European countries

clock 01 November 2025 • 2 min read
Gov urged to use Autumn Budget to ease pressure on rural businesses
Farm Business

Gov urged to use Autumn Budget to ease pressure on rural businesses

NFU Scotland has submitted its recommendations for the budget which is scheduled for release November 26

clock 01 November 2025 • 1 min read
EFRA chair pushes for greater farm export opportunities
Farm Business

EFRA chair pushes for greater farm export opportunities

Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael says Gov should follow US example in championing UK produce

clock 31 October 2025 • 2 min read
Watch our latest webinar: One year on - Where are we on Inheritance Tax?
Events

Watch our latest webinar: One year on - Where are we on Inheritance Tax?

The latest instalment of Farmers Guardian's webinar series took place on Thursday, October 30, at 7pm

clock 31 October 2025 • 1 min read
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