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Controlling fixed costs will be key as agriculture moves away from direct payments

Leave-voting farmers felt EU control over their business dealings threatened their very sense of self, a new study has found.

The best future for Scottish farmers will be achieved by pursuing independence from the dysfunctional UK, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

There were many unpredictable and unprecedented events in 2020, but what does 2021 have in store for farmers? Sustain’s head of sustainable farming, Vicki Hird, explores what could be on the horizon.

Livestock farmers are more likely than their arable counterparts to have voted leave in the EU referendum, a new study has found.

A farm budgeting model has revealed the true financial cost to all sectors from the loss of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) in England

Welsh Government’s current future agriculture policy plans do not focus enough on food security. Ministers need to remedy this as a Christmas gift to farmers, says Janet Finch-Saunders MS, Welsh Tory Shadow Rural Affairs Minister.

Like politicians, the general public have short memories, and however strongly they felt last year about ‘getting Brexit done’, realities that hit them in the pocket will lead to far more unrest than being sick of Brexit headlines, says FUW’s head of policy Dr Nick Fenwick.

In many ways, 2021 is the present we have been waiting for since the EU referendum in 2016. It is the year things really begin to change.

A last minute Brexit deal meaning trade with the EU can continue with zero tariffs and quotas has brought some comfort to British farmers but there are still big concerns over seed potato exports.