Tim farron

Farming MPs had held a protest outside Parliament over cuts to Winter Fuel Payment

"It is absolutely vital that the Government think again over this policy which will push so many pensioners into desperate hardship"

Farmers have claimed the budget cut could see more than 500,000-acres of land taken away from nature for future generations.

Westmorland and Lonsdale MP says he is better placed to challenge rural policy from House of Commons

The code has been introduced at a time when tenants in the north of England are facing notices to quit by estates as a result of 'inheritance tax planning', as well as poor collaboration around the Landscape Recovery project

NSA's chief executive Phil Stocker said he was seeing a 'breakdown in traditional sheep farming and grazing practices', adding with holdings becoming unviable and tenants often not having the opportunity to benefit from the schemes that land is being entered to

Over 60 tenants attended a meeting at Penrith Auction Mart last night (April 3). Many had either already been given notices to quit by their landlord or were having difficult conversations

Industry figures said if the Government want to protect food production, the best way to do that was to ensure Sustainable Farming Incentive applicants had to fill in an ‘active farming test'

Former leader Tim Farron says the current Government has 'no plan' for farming