Description: In today's Farming in Five, Chief Reporter Rachael Brown shares findings from NFU Cymru survey which highlights the ‘eyewatering investment’ and staggering costs facing Welsh farming businesses in order to comply with Welsh Government’s water quality regulations. Elsewhere, farming unions across the UK have joined forces for today’s big banner campaign to apply further political pressure on the Government following changes to Inheritance Tax in Chancellor’s Autumn Budget. And Wales' Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Richard Irvine, is encouraging bird keepers in Wales to take action now to protect their flocks from bird flu and stop the spread of the highly infectious disease, following an increase in number of cases of avian influenza in poultry and kept birds, across Great Britain.
It is now a legal requirement for all birdkeepers within the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) to follow ‘strict biosecurity measures' to help protect their flocks, of whatever type or size
Description: In today's Farming in Five, Chief Reporter Rachael Brown reflects on calls from the British Society of Animal Science to consider the ‘social licence’ aspect in the adoption of methane reducing feed additive Bovaer here in the UK. She reports on a young farmer who brought her heifer calf to Westminster to hand deliver a petition to Government over concerns with Inheritance Tax proposals
Amid growing unrest from farmers over a proposed Inheritance Tax announced in Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget, the Defra Secretary has faced pressure for the number of farms he has visited since July 5
"We are calling on the Chancellor to meet and run a formal consultation, to find a solution that will protect the long-term interests of family businesses and farms and, crucially the jobs and investment they provide"
Pesticide residues raise concerns for consumer health
"I do not think large farmers should be exempt from Inheritance Tax because no-one else is"
Government urged to intervene to ensure health of food and farming for the future
Department says December payments will deliver nearly £300m into rural economy
More than 40 organisations, including River Action and RSPCA, pen open letter to Steve Reed urging Defra to back British farming