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Welsh farmers protest as they say 'enough is enough'

There is growing frustration amongst industry, but the Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths insisted the Sustainable Farming Scheme would not undermine food security and that she was ‘listening'

Rachael Brown
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Welsh farmers protest as they say 'enough is enough'

Tensions boiled over in Wales this week as the Welsh Government stood accused of ‘trying to wipe out' centuries of family farming traditions with its proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS). Welsh...

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