Agriculture

In a letter to Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands Mairi Gougeon, NFUS president Martin Kennedy highlighted that NatureScot's established position in favour of a Galloway National Park calls into question its ability to conduct a public consultation in an ‘impartial manner'

The Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) held a crisis meeting with Northern Ireland's leading food businesses and organisations to address the threat facing farming from government policies

Jeremy Moody, secretary and advisor to Central Association of Agricultural Valuers said the Government's claim that only quarter of farms will be impacted by Inheritance Tax changes ‘misses half of the picture and so understates the effects of the change'

The event is separate to the NFU's lobby being held on the same day, but organisers stressed the events were 'complimentary' and not in competition with one another

The mass lobby on November 19 is now at full capacity. Farmers who have not already registered for the event are warned not to travel down to London and told there will be another opportunity to make their voices heard

With succession the elephant in the room on many farms, Farmers Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown speaks to siblings Anna and Sam Hallos about how they are planning for the future

AHDB economics and analysis director David Eudall warned the industry was at a 'tipping point of how effective the Budget can be' in balancing food security, supporting farm efficiency, and delivering environmental benefits

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told researchers at the Social Market Foundation they ‘should leave their desks' and join him at an assured farm ‘to see how the scheme really works' and the hard work the UK's farming community puts in

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Dorset organic dairy farmer Sophie Gregory said she wished the report had focused more on the 'link between farming and food' and the need for food and farming on the national curriculum