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Tim Farron: "I cannot remember a time when farmers were treated so badly by those in power"

Tim Farron: "I cannot remember a time when farmers were treated so badly by those in power"

Mr Farron, Liberal Democrats spokesperson for rural affairs, writes for 草榴社区 Guardian on issues including withdrawing BPS, Inheritance Tax changes, Donald Trump, food security and backing British farmers

Farm Business
Chris Brayford
clock 28 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Politics

From the editor: "In any other year, those announcements would have been met with applause. Instead, Mr Reed stood red-faced and on the wrong side of farmers' frustrations"

clock 27 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read
Politics

Llyr Gruffydd MS on IHT: "The policy is unforgivable and utterly counter-productive'

clock 27 February 2025 鈥� 4 min read
Blogs

Emma Gray's Farming Life: "The mega storm had blown a sizeable chunk out of our lambing plans"

clock 26 February 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Kirsten Henry: "Enjoy the journey, embrace risk, and just go for it"

clock 26 February 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Sheep

From the lambing shed: Hannah Murrell - "It's not unusual for me to dream about sheep at night"

clock 25 February 2025 鈥� 4 min read
Mental Health

Professor David Rose: "Government, including Defra, must recognise that their language and actions can be one of the major causes of poor farmer wellbeing"

clock 25 February 2025 鈥� 4 min read
Letters: "Surely a better option would be to scrap APR altogether, but with exemptions"

Politics

Letters: "Surely a better option would be to scrap APR altogether, but with exemptions"

FG reader Frank Brown offers his proposed solution to closing the tax avoidance loophole in Agricultural Property Relief (APR)

clock 25 February 2025 鈥� 2 min read
Labour MP Steve Witherden on IHT: "I asked the Treasury to raise the threshold to target the tax-dodging multinationals... there is still time for this to be put right"

Politics

Labour MP Steve Witherden on IHT: "I asked the Treasury to raise the threshold to target the tax-dodging multinationals... there is still time for this to be put right"

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Steve Witherden, Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glynd诺r

clock 24 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world"

In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes - "February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

clock 23 February 2025 鈥� 3 min read