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The UK and the EU have reached a new deal over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, which the Prime Minister says will deliver the ’smooth flow of trade’.

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer today set out his stall to win the rural vote, declaring that ‘food security is national security’.

The Government has announced a raft of changes to its Environmental Land Management Schemes in a bid to encourage more farmers to sign-up.

Former Defra secretary George Eustice has announced he will be stepping down as an MP at the next General Election.

The Government has been accused of ‘failing to honour its promises to farmers’ after Defra Secretary Therese Coffey refused to set out concrete details for the future of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme last week.

The three Environmental Land Management schemes are to remain in place incorporating an enhanced Countryside Stewardship scheme that will be more closely linked to Local Nature Recovery, the Secretary of State for Defra Therese Coffey, has revealed.

Wales Rural Affairs Minister, Lesley Griffiths, has come out in support of tenant farmers, saying that if the new Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) does not work for them, it does not work at all.

Concerns are growing that Defra will not increase payment rates under the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), despite an unexpected increase in the department’s budget.

Tenant farmers in Wales have expressed fears that the Governments new Sustainable Farming Scheme will be unworkable, leaving them sidelined.