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Outgoing NFU president Minette Batters, who was succeeded by Tom Bradshaw this week, expressed her frustration around Mr Sunak's use of language

Rishi Sunak spoke at NFU conference 2024 today (February 20)

LIVE from the National ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Union (NFU) Conference 2024 - Get all the latest updates from the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian news team

Mrs Batters questions which party will set a target for food production with a statutory underpinning? She said there was currently an imbalance between environment and food production in government policy

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'

30 farmers blocked the roads outside Lesley Griffith's office in Wrexham to share their frustration with Wales' current farming policies

Professor Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was 'disingenuous, lazy and damaging'

Despite previous promises by Government that the land use strategy document would be published by the end of the year, the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian understands it has been delayed to some point next year

Organic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø and Growers chief executive Roger Kerr said there was a ‘whole industry out there built around pesticides and fertilisers' which wants organic to fail, but organic is a ‘defined farming system that can deliver a ‘low carbon, nature-friendly, people-positive' food system