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Consult us on tax changes, farmers’ leaders urge Keir Starmer

Farmers’ leaders have urged the prime minister to put changes to agricultural inheritance tax on hold while ministers consult with…

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Environment

Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him? | US elections 2024

Every year, farmers in California’s Central valley heavily rely on the labor of hundreds of thousands of immigrant agricultural workers…

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Environment

From field to farm: the US pro athletes trying their hand at agriculture | Black farmers

When Jason Brown speaks to schoolchildren, they clamor to hear about his seven-year NFL career. A mountain of a man…

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Environment

Climate change poses new problems for Massachusetts cranberry farmers » Yale Climate Connections

Every fall, Massachusetts’s cranberry farmers flood their bogs to harvest the tart, red fruit – a staple dish of the…

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Environment

Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative | Massachusetts

As millions of cranberries were being harvested for Thursday’s US Thanksgiving holiday, Massachusetts farmers were working to convert defunct cranberry…

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Environment

Environmental grants promised to farmers in England frozen | Farming

Grants promised to farmers in England for planting hedges and cleaning up waterways have been frozen by the government. The…

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Environment

Rachel Reeves standing firm against U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers | Farming

Rachel Reeves is holding firm against a U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers, despite the Treasury analysing ways of softening…

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Environment

Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling? | Polly Toynbee

That was a state-of-the-nation image, those thousands of farmers in Whitehall protesting about inheritance tax (IHT). Their little inheritors on…

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Politics

Farmers protest against inheritance tax changes

The farmers’ demonstration was best summed up in two images: real tractors being driven by farmers around Parliament Square, and…

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Environment

Environment secretary tells farmers to blame Tories if they feel betrayed amid protests in London – UK politics live | Politics

Steve Reed says, if farmers feel betrayed, they should blame Tories for state public finances were in after election In…

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