"Once a farm is gone, it is gone."
In an opposition debate in Parliament on Tuesday (October 8) Mr Reed said the idea of a commissioner had ‘merit' and there would be an announcement ‘shortly'
The Defra Secretary Steve Reed and the Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner have also been invited to attend the political session
This marks The Crown Estate's first acquisition of a rural estate since 2014, and is part of its new rural strategy to create ‘long-term value for the industry'
Mr Ireland also said clauses in tenancy agreements for ‘agricultural use only' must change as they do not fit with the ‘entrepreneurial' ambition of tenants
The Tenant Farmers Association has put forward a number of complaints to the council's senior management team
With a new type of farming tenancy being rolled out by the Crown Estate, FG's chief reporter Rachael Brown spoke to Paul Sedgwick about the estate’s plans
Peer expresses her 'disappointment and bewilderment' but vows to fight on for tenant farmers
From September 1 2024, applicants for succession must prove they are both 'eligible and suitable' to be the tenant of the agricultural holding subject to succession
It follows a decision made by an inspector in relation to a planning appeal from a developer which had been refused consent for a solar farm on land in Somerset