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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Emily Beament

New deal needed for ‘bewildered and frightened’ farming sector, review urges

Farmers protesting in Westminster last month over changes to inheritance tax rules (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

The farming sector is “bewildered and frightened”, with inheritance tax and farming payment changes causing significant ongoing concern, a review for the Government has found.

The farm profitability report by former National Farmers’ Union president Baroness Minette Batters has called for a “new deal for profitable farming” that recognises the true cost of producing food and delivering for the environment.

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