Graham Miles, Suffolk’s agricultural chaplain for the past six years, has resigned with immediate effect. He will now focus on leading a new farming organisation.

The British farming community has responded to plans laid out by the government to speed up the house-building process by simplifying biodiversity rules for smaller sites and fast-tracking certain housing projects.

British farmers have called on the government to address the power imbalance between supermarkets and growers by overhauling the food supply chain regulator and making farming feel less “like survival”.