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More than 100 businesses, retailers and trade bodies from across the food and farming supply chain’ including the NFU and NPA, have written to the Prime…
Weekly pig prices and slaughter data for Great Britain. After briefly stabilising last week, the EU-spec SPP has recorded another big decline, losing 1.61p to stand…
Co-op has announced that it will meet its commitment to be 100% ‘cage-free’ across its continental meat range by the end of the year. In 2018,…
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More than 100 food and farming bodies unite to family farm tax u-turn
0More than 100 businesses, retailers and trade bodies from across the food and farming supply chain’ including the NFU and NPA, have written to the Prime Minister ahead of the Budget, urging him to rethink the ‘family farm tax’. With a week to go until the Budget, the open letter to Sir Keir Starmer outlines how the ‘unjust and unfair tax will impact thousands of working people running family farms’. Unless changed, it stands to have ‘severe unintended consequences’, such as farms being forced to sell off land and core business assets to fund significant and unexpected tax bills, the…