Sustainable Farming Scheme

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

The Welsh Government's new outline for the Sustainable Farming Scheme has ‘scaled back' the number of universal actions from 17 to 12

The farm-level 10% tree cover figure has been removed and will be replaced by a scheme-wide target, which will be agreed after discussions with the Ministerial Roundtable

Welsh Conservatives set to launch its 'Welsh Farming and Countryside Scheme' at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair, as an alternative to the Welsh Government's 'damaging' Sustainable Farming Scheme

Welsh Conservatives said the family farm tax will be 'detrimental to the future of farming in Wales', warning that food security will be 'threatened and food prices will rise'

"Labour have not thought through this policy"

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw Irranca-Davies confirmed the carbon sequestration evidence panel would be reporting its findings to the ministerial roundtable 'anytime soon'

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