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Autumn Budget 2024
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Treasury must recognise impact of Inheritance Tax changes on tenant farmers
Politics

Treasury must recognise impact of Inheritance Tax changes on tenant farmers

Rachael Brown
clock 20 November 2024 • 2 min read
Chancellor refuses to meet with NFU to discuss Inheritance Tax changes for family farms
Politics

Chancellor refuses to meet with NFU to discuss Inheritance Tax changes for family farms

Rachael Brown
clock 20 November 2024 • 4 min read
The Farmers Guardian podcast LIVE from the farmer protest: "Enough is enough. If we don't stand and do something about it, there is no future for farming"
Podcasts

The Farmers Guardian podcast LIVE from the farmer protest: "Enough is enough. If we don't stand and do something about it, there is no future for farming"

Emily Ashworth
clock 20 November 2024 • 1 min read
Farmer protest sends strong message to Government: "Buckle up Starmer because you are not going to win this fight"
Politics

Farmer protest sends strong message to Government: "Buckle up Starmer because you are not going to win this fight"

Emily Ashworth
clock 20 November 2024 • 2 min read
Latest News
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LIVE UPDATES from London demonstrations: NFU president says he has never seen the industry so angry
Politics

LIVE UPDATES from London demonstrations: NFU president says he has never seen the industry so angry

Everything farmers need to know from London rally

clock 19 November 2024 • 1 min read
APR reforms will ensure 'wealthier estates and most valuable farms' pay fair share, says Chancellor and Defra Secretary ahead of farming rally in Westminster
Politics

APR reforms will ensure 'wealthier estates and most valuable farms' pay fair share, says Chancellor and Defra Secretary ahead of farming rally in Westminster

The reforms to Agricultural Property Relief will be used to 'invest in our schools and health services that farmers and families in rural communities rely on'

clock 18 November 2024 • 2 min read
NFU president's speech to farmers ahead of mass lobby to stop the Government's family farm tax
Politics

NFU president's speech to farmers ahead of mass lobby to stop the Government's family farm tax

Mr Bradshaw is expected to say: "I do not think I have ever seen the industry this angry, this disillusioned and this upset. And given what we have had to be angry about in recent years that is saying something"

clock 18 November 2024 • 4 min read
Resilience building is key to farming's future
Farm Business

Resilience building is key to farming's future

With a backdrop of political uncertainty, attendees at the IAgrm Conference heard how a more resilient farming system was needed for the future

clock 18 November 2024 • 3 min read
AHDB chair to stand down in spring 2025
Politics

AHDB chair to stand down in spring 2025

The appointment of AHDB chair is a Ministerial public appointment with a salary of £58,000 per annum

clock 18 November 2024 • 2 min read
View from the Hill: UK/US relationship 'potentially more complex' after Trump win
Politics

View from the Hill: UK/US relationship 'potentially more complex' after Trump win

The UK's trading relationship with the US has become potentially more complex in the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the US Presidential election

clock 18 November 2024 • 2 min read
Welsh farming unions call for 'clarity' on funding allocation
Politics

Welsh farming unions call for 'clarity' on funding allocation

A rumoured move in funding towards the Barnett formula would mean a UK Treasury model ‘calculates the amount of block grant each of the devolved nations should receive based on populations'

clock 15 November 2024 • 2 min read
Farmers put investment projects 'on hold' following Inheritance Tax changes
Politics

Farmers put investment projects 'on hold' following Inheritance Tax changes

Defra Secretary Steve Reed said ‘the vast majority of farmers would not be affected at all by the changes', and urged farmers ‘not to believe every alarming claim or headline'

clock 15 November 2024 • 2 min read
Farm Business Incomes show record falls in 2023/24
Farm Business

Farm Business Incomes show record falls in 2023/24

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said it painted a stark picture of the challenges facing many farmers

clock 14 November 2024 • 6 min read
Labour MSP tells farmers to think about families struggling to pay for food in Inheritance Tax clash
Politics

Labour MSP tells farmers to think about families struggling to pay for food in Inheritance Tax clash

"I wonder what people who are struggling to feed their families think when they hear the Conservatives crying foul over policies which protect people (farmers) from paying tax on assets worth up to £3 million in certain areas"

clock 14 November 2024 • 3 min read
Autumn Budget: delinked payments will hit farmers fast
Farm Business

Autumn Budget: delinked payments will hit farmers fast

Fears for uplands and common land farmers following reduction in direct payments

clock 14 November 2024 • 2 min read
'We must reverse the family farm tax', says Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary
Politics

'We must reverse the family farm tax', says Shadow Rural Affairs Secretary

"For generations, farming families have served to grow food for us all. They are a service to their country and they are custodians of the countryside"

clock 13 November 2024 • 5 min read
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