From the editor: "This level of distrust must be 'urgently' repaired if Red Tractor is to get farmers back on side"

This week from Farmers Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown (March 8)

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From the editor: "This level of distrust must be 'urgently' repaired if Red Tractor is to get farmers back on side"

It seems difficult to imagine there is any way back for the Greener Farms Commitment (GFC) module given the strength of industry feeling for it to be dropped. A joint statement demanding it be ‘discontinued'...

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