"Politics has not worked for farmers in a very long time"
The Defra Secretary Steve Reed and the Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner have also been invited to attend the political session
The session starts at 7pm on October 4
Tenant ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Association said it had been given reassurances from a senior Defra official last week that a decision was imminent
APHA said the total number of bluetongue cases in England and Wales has reached 115 (as of October 2)
“I have heard first-hand the experiences of farmers battling this disease"
FSA charges are currently discounted according to the number of hours involved so that smaller abattoir businesses, which require fewer hours regulation, receive a greater discount
The chair of Labour's Climate and Environment Forum Baroness Young said she hoped the ‘multi-functional' land use framework would be operationally ‘sustainable'
Defra estimated an ASF outbreak could cost the UK between £10 million to £100 million