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As an ambassador of the charity Farm Africa, former NFU president Baroness Minette Batters highlighted the story of Kenyan smallholder Juliet Muthoni

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on the top stories from this week, including the Chancellor being accused of using Ministers as 'human shields' over Inheritance Tax changes, farmers take fate into their own hands by abandoning their SFI applications early despite waiting for offers to be made by the Government, APHA appoints former police chief as new chief executive, and Baroness Minette Batters asked to lead a review into farm profitability. Next week the latest on Donald Trump's trade tariffs and the impact on agriculture, new details revealed for the next stage of Johne's disease plan, and a petition to get farming on the curriculum aims to get 100k signatures

The former NFU president issued a reminder that food security is national security, recalling the concerns about food security when Covid hit in 2020

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: Chair of the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers - John Thorley

The former Defra Secretary Dr Therese Coffey has also been honoured with a Damehood

More than 1,500 farmers attended the Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham. What did farmers learn?

This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley (February 22)

The elections took place at the NFU Conference in Birmingham on February 21

NFU president Minette Batters delivered her last speech as leader of the farming organisation at the NFU Conference in Birmingham

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