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Letters: "The Farm Welfare Bill is needed to put the UK's farmers in a financial position to continue putting food on your table"

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: William Taylor, Farmers For Action co-ordinator, discusses the decision to pause a UK-wide farm protest and the push for a Farm Welfare Bill

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Letters: "The Farm Welfare Bill is needed to put the UK's farmers in a financial position to continue putting food on your table"

Farmers For Action has put the UK-wide tax and fuel protest on hold for now because of a myriad of issues, some positive. The group was privileged to be asked by farm organisations across the UK, accompanied...

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