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With a family legacy behind her, 13-year-old Belle Hume wants to showcase how vital farming is

The NFU said that with no legislative target for food production, it was the ‘poor relation' in negotiations and believed the Government was wrong to assume farm productivity levels would compensate for the loss of agricultural land

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown discusses Defra's announcement to give councils the power to seize and crush vehicles belonging to waste criminals and fly tippers after MPs warned that farming families were being pushed into 'debt and despair' due to criminals dumping waste on their land, plus the sheep industry's concerns that destocking the uplands is leading to 'increased' wildfire risks, and the 130 jobs at risk due to the planned closure of Arla's milk processing plant in North Yorkshire

Farmers have argued sheep grazing plays a 'vital role' in controlling the risk of wildfires