Autumn Budget

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the confirmed case of avian influenza found in a farm worker in the West Midlands, discusses the reaction from the growers and the wider farming industry to the ban on neonicotinoid Cruiser SB on sugar beet crops, and an update on the latest analysis done by AHDB, which found over 42,000 farmers in England and Scotland will be hit by the Chancellor's Inheritance Tax changes

Cereals farms will be hit hardest by the proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief

MSPs have written a joint letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves outlining how the Autumn Budget could impact farmers in Scotland

Farmers have been out across the country to engage with the public on the campaign to stop the family farm tax

Farmers are hosting events across the UK today to highlight the impact of changes to Inheritance Tax on family farmers

All planned rally events across the whole of Scotland have been postponed 

Events planned across Britain, from Shetland to Cornwall, and from the Giant’s Causeway to Kent

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Carmichael said that ‘deep concern' is fuelling low confidence and morale levels in the agricultural and wider rural community and that he would like to meet with the PM urgently to discuss ‘potential mitigations'

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley