First Minister

SFS, Inheritance Tax, and agriculture budget were the main topics discussed with Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan during a visit to a family sheep farm in Ceredigion

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reflects on this week's main news stories including mounting pressure on the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, with 40 Labour MPs calling for changes to the current family farm tax proposals. She also looks ahead to next week, with a special 'Ask the Expert' feature coming up in Farmers Guardian online and in print, where a panel of experts will be answering our readers' questions around the fallout of Inheritance Tax and how to best prepare your family farm business

Prior to the Budget, the Farmers' Union of Wales previously warned a worse case scenario of full ‘Barnettisation' of Wales' agricultural funding could equate to a ‘drop of around 40% in funding for Welsh farming - a cut of around £150m a year'

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw-Irranca Davies spoke with our chief reporter Rachael Brown about updates to the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), Hybu Cig Cymru facing allegations of 'toxic culture', IHT changes and impact on Welsh farmers, and the upcoming budget in Wales and what this means for SFS

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw Irranca-Davies said: "What we are doing is bringing forward a scheme that is right and accessible to all farmers, in order to do that we need lock the doors, bury ourselves away, and crunch through some serious matters"

Farmers' Union of Wales senior policy adviser Rebecca Voyle outlines what funding schemes are available now and over the next few months for farmers in Wales

Applications for the new Integrated Natural Resources Scheme (INRS) are until September 27

Plaid Cymru criticised Labour's energy plans, adding they ‘will not maximise benefits' for Welsh communities without the devolution of the Crown Estate to Wales

Ms Morgan says she is the first First Minister from a 'rural constituency'

This week's column from Farmers Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown, reflecting on how the revolving door at the Senedd is impacting on Welsh agriculture at a critical point in the development of the Sustainable Farming Scheme