This week from Farmers Guardian readers: Ruth Umpleby discusses the dairy sector and recent milk price reductions
Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones
The campaign led by Farmers to Action arrived at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on Sunday (September 28) to deliver messages from farmers to the Government
Jenny Riddle-Carpenter MP says she will continue to engage with the Government about Inheritance tax which is causing problems in rural areas
Farmers spent weeks preparing to protest outside the Labour Party conference, however, the sentiment appeared to get lost in the sea of other protestors who joined them. Farmers Guardian news and business reporter Mia Willemsen discusses the day
Defra had previously failed to confirm to Farmers Guardian if a meeting had taken place with NFYFC to discuss the possibility of ending discretionary funding for young farmers
Tax Policy Associates' Dan Neidle said Sir Keir had bought a seven acre field in Surrey for his parents to look after rescued donkeys in 1996. Mr Neidle said the field was likely placed in a life-interest trust, and the nature of the tax planning structure had the effect of keeping the field outside his parents’ estate for Inheritance Tax purposes
Emma Reynolds insists Labour is listening to farmers but there is no mention of Inheritance Tax rethink
Having travelled from all over the country, farmers took to the streets today (September 28) to protest the Government's Inheritance Tax (IHT) plans