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

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

Plaid Cymru Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs, Llyr Gruffydd, shares his views on the impact of the family farm tax in Wales ahead of a debate in the Senedd on Wednesday, March 5

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clock 27 February 2025 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 4 min read
Politics

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

clock 25 February 2025 • 2 min read
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"

clock 24 February 2025 • 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 • 3 min read
In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

In your field

In your field: Alan Carter - "All you need for a summer of checking stock with your children and a dog is: a bag of electric fence wire, CDs (Johnny Cash and ABBA), ball valve arms, tennis balls and car seats"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a parish councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

clock 22 February 2025 • 3 min read
Edward Morello - Lib Dems MP: "The Farming Resilience Fund is still needed and the decision to end it will have foreseeable consequences"

Mental Health

Edward Morello - Lib Dems MP: "The Farming Resilience Fund is still needed and the decision to end it will have foreseeable consequences"

Mr Morello, who represents West Dorset, has written about the importance of the Farming Resilience Fund on the mental health of farmers, and why it is wrong that the scheme will come to an end

clock 21 February 2025 • 3 min read