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How vital are abattoirs to farm businesses and what impact does a closure have to a business?

Efra chair Alistair Carmichael said the Defra Secretary and the Farming Minister should be the ‘voice of farmers within Government but they are clearly not being listened to' over the family farm tax

This week from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

The Prime Minister was due to deliver a speech outlining the Government's plans to create new towns in England, but he was forced to leave when protesting farmers turned up and pipped their horns

This week from Rachael Brown, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian chief reporter

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the Farming Minister's comments that agriculture is low in the Government's 'pecking order' and 'the Budget is the Budget' and the focus must now be on getting the sector on a ‘proper, sustainable, business-like footing', and restaurant chain Nando's is to conduct an independent audit of its chicken suppliers after it was accused of ‘killing' the River Wye by green campaign groups

Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner told farmers at the Norfolk Farming Conference ‘the Budget is as the Budget is' and it was not going to change

James farms Dairy Shorthorns east of Kendal, Cumbria. The fifth generation to farm at Strickley, he is also vice-chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network

Cheshire Young ²ÝÁñÉçÇø' Club discussed how rural isolation can have a deep impact on the health and wellbeing of farmers