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More than 100 businesses, retailers and trade bodies across the food and farming supply chain have written to the prime minister urging him to “do the right thing” and rethink planned changes to the inheritance tax.

A cow and a slurry tanker made an unexpected appearance in Central London yesterday, as British farmers gathered to mark the anniversary of last year’s major farming rally.

Almost half of farmers surveyed by NFU Mutual have not yet planned how they will hand over farms to the next generation, despite proposed changes to inheritance tax taking effect in less than six months’ time.

Farmers from across the UK are preparing to drive their tractors to London on Budget day, calling for fair treatment and a secure future for British farming.

Farm-Tec has announced that the new GAC 2700-UGMA Grain Analysis Computer is available in the UK.

As Brake’s annual Road Safety Week begins, the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) is urging farmers across the UK to make rural road safety a top priority this winter.

Farmers from across the country will gather at Whitehall tomorrow to mark the anniversary of last year’s major farming rally.

The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, which allows the commercial cultivation of gene-edited crops in England, has now come into force. 

A national charity, Green Allotments, has been purchasing land and creating new, community-run allotment sites on small areas of agricultural land. 

Farming campaigning group Farmers To Action confirmed that, as of today, it has formally dissolved its operations. 

The owner of a UK-based king prawn farm, along with the researchers behind the project, said that introducing the farms could create a thriving and sustainable domestic seafood industry.

Welsh farming representatives have welcomed the cross-party House of Commons’ select committee report urging the UK government to delay its planned inheritance tax reforms.