NFU

Government figures show 70% more fatalities occur on rural roads than on urban highways

This week's Farmers Guardian podcast with NFU deputy president David Exwood looks at how he has approached succession and what is next for the Government

Responding to Defra putting on hold 76 capital grant items, NFU deputy president David Exwood said: "The messaging of this is confusing – farmers and growers are being asked to adopt measures to improve the environment but have been left in the lurch without access to the key grant schemes which will enable them to do this"

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

Defra confirmed 76 grant items have been impacted. For farmers who have applied for a grant that is temporarily withdrawn, their application will be put on hold and will be contacted early next year

The NFU has expressed ‘extreme concern' to reports the scheme is now unlikely to open until mid-2025

Farmers have been dealing with a 'callous and chaotic Government policy dropped like a bomb' but there is hope elements of APR may be reversed

In an online video to NFU members, Mr Bradshaw said the PM was 'very much in listening mode' and hoped he was going to act on what he had heard around the 'very real human impacts' of IHT changes

One week after London farmer protest, Tom Bradshaw is called to Number 10 as rally organisers vow to fight on

If there was a situation where carbon emissions were being reduced from UK meat, but higher carbon products were continuing to be imported, businessman Henry Dimbleby said a carbon border tax would be ‘theoretically' right, but questioned how it could be done legislatively