Autumn Budget

Steve Witherden MP said many elderly farmers were ‘too late in life' to plan for the proposed changes to Inheritance Tax

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on farmers' frustration of having to publicly defend the safety and viability of their businesses in light of public concerns around methane suppressors, Wales announces an all-wales avian influenza prevention zone, after it was declared across England and Scotland earlier in the week, and NFU Council members vote in favour of staging a further protest in the capital as part of a drive to halt the family farm tax

The Plaid Cymru MP and tenant dairy farmer Ann Davies said there was 'train of people' in West Wales buying land for trees, carbon offsetting and solar and wind farms

Heathrow expansion dominates agenda as Reeves insists Budget's fiscal rules are ‘non-negotiable and will be met'

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the Chancellor's remarks that the Fiscal Rules set out in the Autumn Budget are 'non-negotiable and will be met', NFU Council members have voted in favour of staging a further protest in the capital on February 25, as part of a drive to halt the family farm tax, and NFU Cymru has called on Natural Resources Wales to reverse its decision to stop issuing new permits that allow farmers to dispose of waste sheep dip to land.

NFU Council members voted in favour of undertaking further protest activity in the hope of overturning the family farm tax

The rallies were postponed in the wake of Storm Eowyn, with farmers focusing on clean-up operations

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