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Last week's Budget has brought succession and the transition of family assets to the forefront of everyone's minds, with considerable fear of potential Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax bills

The Ulster ²ÝÁñÉçÇø' Union (UFU) held a crisis meeting with Northern Ireland's leading food businesses and organisations to address the threat facing farming from government policies

Baroness Kate Rock is hopeful that newly elected Labour MPs in rural constituencies are already talking sensibly about finding a way forward to protect farms from ‘oblivion’

Jeremy Moody, secretary and advisor to Central Association of Agricultural Valuers said the Government's claim that only quarter of farms will be impacted by Inheritance Tax changes ‘misses half of the picture and so understates the effects of the change'

The event is separate to the NFU's lobby being held on the same day, but organisers stressed the events were 'complimentary' and not in competition with one another

The farming industry will be taking part in the annual Lord Mayor's Show this weekend to say thank you to the British public for their overwhelming support, particularly in recent weeks with ‘more than 150,000 people signing' the NFU campaign to overturn the ‘family farm tax'

The mass lobby on November 19 is now at full capacity. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø who have not already registered for the event are warned not to travel down to London and told there will be another opportunity to make their voices heard

Victoria Atkins takes up post in Kemi Badenoch's new Shadow Cabinet

With succession the elephant in the room on many farms, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown speaks to siblings Anna and Sam Hallos about how they are planning for the future

Union president Tom Bradshaw says farmers' fury was made clear during emergency Budget talks with Defra