Patrick Holden: "Support cannot simply be for activities around the edges of farmland"

Founder of the Sustainable Food Trust Patrick Holden said Steve Reed missed an opportunity to show more support for the industry in his speech at the Oxford Farming Conference

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At a time when the farming community needed to see real leadership from Government, this feels like a hugely missed opportunity for this administration. Farming has the potential to help meet several of...

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