All news on the topic: Farmers

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Oxford Union accused of police screening for Tommy Robinson Islam debate
Attendees at Wednesday’s controversial Oxford Union debate on whether the West should be “suspicious of Islam” – which will host the far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) – are being screened by Thames Valley Police to avoid disruption, Byline Times understands.
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Big Dairy fuels UK mega-farm boom as intensive cattle units more than double
Milk is affordable on supermarket shelves. But for farmers, high prices of essentials including fertilizer, fuel, and feed have prompted production costs to shoot up, forcing many to boost productivity by “going big”.
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Croatian officials and farmers arrested in EU-funded agriculture subsidy fraud investigation led by EPPO
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb has launched an investigation into 21 Croatian citizens, including a public official and a former official, over suspected corruption and fraud involving EU agricultural subsidies from the EAFRD and EAGF funds.
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Fuel price anger sparks nationwide disruption as police dismantle blockades
Police have removed a blockade in central Dublin by farmers and hauliers protesting against fuel prices, indicating a possible end to six days of protests that have shaken Ireland.
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Farming leaders lobbied the UK government against stricter rules on antibiotic use in livestock farming
Farming chiefs lobbied the UK government in a bid to avoid stricter rules around the use of antibiotics on livestock farms, despite the risks some practices pose to public health.
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Labour announces £2.5m inheritance tax relief threshold for agricultural and business assets
Labour will increase the inheritance tax relief threshold for farmers in a significant concession following backlash from rural communities.
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Farmers defy police ban and drive tractors into Westminster to protest Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax plan
Police had banned tractors from Whitehall, but farmers angry about Rachel Reeves’s tax changes brought their budget day protest to Westminster anyway.
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Pakistani farmers plan to sue German polluters for flood damage linked to climate change
A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has initiated legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.
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Cheesemaker suspends milk supplies from Cornish farm after animal abuse claims
A British cheesemaker says it has suspended milk collections from a Cornish farm following allegations of animal abuse.
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Ukrainian farmer gets 70 times less compensation for stolen tractor after 15 years of legal battle
A farmer in Ukraine says he will seek justice at the country’s Supreme Court after he was awarded 70 times less than he sought as compensation for mismanagement in the case of his stolen tractor.
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Arla survey: 13% of farmers ready to quit dairy production due to staff shortage
The Arla cooperative says five in six farmers receive very few or zero applications for job vacancies
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Agrarian mafia in power: how Greek ministers looted EU subsidies under the prime minister’s protection
The prime minister is wielding his parliamentary majority to prevent a full-scale investigation into ministers suspected of wrongdoing.
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Millionaire farmer dies 24 hours after marrying carer — widow set to inherit £4.7m
Joe Grogan, 75, died just one day after marrying his carer Lisa Flaherty, 50, in a ’secret wedding’ at a registry office - his family had called for a detailed forensic investigation into his death
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Welsh farmer given suspended sentence for stealing 73 pregnant sheep
Hywel Williams given 12-month suspended sentence after telling court he ‘deeply’ regretted stealing animals
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Brexit changes under Starmer may threaten farmers’ harvests
The UK will have to ban many pesticides, hitting food production, with farmers already reeling from Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid
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Rogue pigs cause chaos in ’terrorized’ quaint village after escaping from farm
An intrepid herd of pigs have been causing chaos in a Norfolk village by escaping from a nearby farm and digging up gardens while on the prowl for food.
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US to push UK to import high-quality American meat in Trump trade deal
US industry ready to drop demand to export chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef in move set to anger British farmers
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Hundreds of tractors converge on Westminster in latest farmers’ protest
Farmers and tractors have started to descend into London today to protest against the Labour government’s changes to inheritance tax.
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Thousands of farmers protest against changes to inheritance tax
Thousands of people have protested in London over changes to inheritance tax for farmers announced in the Budget.
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Angry farmers protest in tractors outside Labour conference, shouting ‘enough is enough’
Furious farmers have today descended on the coastal town of Llandudno in their tractors to express their anger at the inheritance tax rises announced in the Budget.
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Toxic vegetables? In Kenya, former farm workers sue over pesticide exposure
Sickness and death befell the former employees of a British farm who allegedly worked with pesticides. Now, they want justice.
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Brexit aftermath leads to UK farmers losing faith amid looming food security concerns
A combination of 18 months of bad weather, Brexit and other international events have left confidence in British farming at an all-time low, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has revealed.
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British farmers want basic income to cope with post-Brexit struggles
Schemes to replace EU subsidies will not plug gap left by loss of EU subsidies for most farmers