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UK farming unions stressed that falling livestock numbers threatened food security in uncertain times.

The EU’s ban on Brazilian meat comes into force next week (September 3) but no action has yet been taken by the UK Government

Findings welcome progress but say some sectors - and Government - are lagging behind in support for farmers

Minister says pollution can not be levelled at one sector as he urges greater collaboration

NFU president Tom Bradshaw looks back on a week which welcomed the 10th Back British Farming Day and yet another Defra Secretary

NFU Cymru president Aled Jones has written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer asking him to consider the plight of elderly farmers who are living in fear of family farm tax

Arable farmer Martin Lines said farmers have 'wasted time' by fighting the 'wrong battles' with Government when they should be championing the benefits they provide to society as a whole

In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Carmichael said that ‘deep concern' is fuelling low confidence and morale levels in the agricultural and wider rural community and that he would like to meet with the PM urgently to discuss ‘potential mitigations'

Supermarkets have joined forces to speak up for farmers and growers against the Government's proposed changes to Inheritance Tax

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said the union's response covers ‘some of the benefits' which farm assurance schemes provides, but it also covers the ‘inescapable issues' that must be addressed