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Industry experts start to unpick what the changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) reliefs mean for the farming sector

The ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian news team give their analysis of the Chancellor's Budget

TFA chief executive George Dunn said: "Short-term and restrictive tenancies are holding back progression, investment and sustainable land use. We can change this situation with reform of APR. However, serious damage will be caused if the Chancellor takes a knee-jerk, abolitionist approach"

The Greater London Authority has given the green light to a housing development on agricultural land occupied by an tenant in the Barnet area of London

In an opposition debate in Parliament on Tuesday (October 8) Mr Reed said the idea of a commissioner had ‘merit' and there would be an announcement ‘shortly'

The Defra Secretary Steve Reed and the Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner have also been invited to attend the political session

This marks The Crown Estate's first acquisition of a rural estate since 2014, and is part of its new rural strategy to create ‘long-term value for the industry'

Mr Ireland also said clauses in tenancy agreements for ‘agricultural use only' must change as they do not fit with the ‘entrepreneurial' ambition of tenants

NFU president Tom Bradshaw warned the Farming Minister that in light of the £358 million pound underspend of the farming budget, Defra was a department ‘very close to failure' if it was not careful

The Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner attended the Farm Tenancy Forum for the first time since being elected into Government