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This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: CLA vice-president Joe Evans

"We are calling on the Chancellor to meet and run a formal consultation, to find a solution that will protect the long-term interests of family businesses and farms and, crucially the jobs and investment they provide"

"(Farmers) who are genuinely in ill health or don't believe that they will be able to live for seven years, may well decide they shouldn't be here in April 2026. No policy should ever be published which has that unintended side effect"

MPs will hold the first evidence session of this inquiry next week, scrutinising the potential impacts of proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief

A CLA poll of England's 100 most rural constituencies, shows '58% oppose the inheritance tax hike', with 'less than a quarter in support'

"57% say they trust Labour less as a result of the Inheritance Tax decision and nearly a quarter of Labour voters say they are now unhappy about the way they voted at the General Election"

Results from the Groceries Code Adjudicator's 2024 annual survey showed an 'improvement in treatment of suppliers'

The NFU has expressed ‘extreme concern' to reports the scheme is now unlikely to open until mid-2025

CLA president Victoria Vyvyan has rebutted the Chancellor’s claim, to be made at the CBI annual conference, nobody is offering alternatives to the Budget

NFU deputy president David Exwood said it was ‘very clear that tenants will be impacted' by the Government's IHT proposals