March 17: Emergency roundtable called between farming organisations and Farming Minister later today to discuss SFI fallout

17/03/2025 6 min Temporada 2 Episodio 53
March 17: Emergency roundtable called between farming organisations and Farming Minister later today to discuss SFI fallout

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In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown understands an an emergency roundtable meeting has been called for later today between farming organisations and Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner to discuss the fallout from Defra's decision last week to suspend new applications to SFI. She also reports on the appointment of Dr David Llewellyn as the independent monitoring and reporting commissioner for the recommendations from the UK Farm Assurance Review. And why a Cambridgeshire tenant farmer has been left 'fuming' at Defra after he was left with no compensation from the Farming Recovery Fund.  Your daily update from Farmers Guardian