NFU Talk

In this week's Farming in Five from NFU President Tom Bradshaw, you can hear about bluetongue, the NFU's meeting with agricultural attaches and its importance, and why farm safety is a leading priority for the NFU.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week's Farming in Five, NFU President Tom Bradshaw recaps on the latest meeting of NFU Council which hosted Secretary of State Steve Barclay and gives insight to what he said when giving evidence on methane last week.

You can also hear about Great British Beef Week and hear from the board chairs representing sugar, horticulture and combinable crops.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week's Farming in Five Tom outlines his latest meetings with Government leaders, reflects on the NFU's National Tenant Farmer Conference and introduces the first three of the NFU's sector board chairs.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

This week's Farming in Five is led by the Farming Recovery Fund announcement. The fund -  which Tom says "simply was not good enough" - has scrapped the 150m rule following extensive talks with the NFU.

You can listen all about this, and other topics such as rural crime, farm safety and the NFU National Tenant Farmers' Conference in this week's edition.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week's Farming in Five, Tom and NFU Vice-President Rachel Hallos visited the Boston Barrier with Chair of the Environment Agency Alan Lovell, and Minister for Water and Rural Growth Robbie Moore, to hear directly from members about the devastating impact of flooding.

Next week the vlog will take a short break over Easter, but will be back on 12 April.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week's farming in five you can hear about the NFU's roadshow of farm assurance meetings starting next week, a special NFU Live session on bTB and an update from the NFU Poultry Board's Phill Crawley on laying hen standards.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week’s Farming in Five, you can hear Tom's download on a member meeting in Dartmoor which featured Secretary of State Steve Barclay, Natural England's Marian Spain and Sir Geoffrey Cox MP. 

Also featured this week:

• Tom recaps on his appearance at the City Food Lecture (0:53)
• Taking a closer look at the latest farm business income figures from Defra (1:33)
• NFU Vice President Rachel Hallos reveals the incredible reach of the NFU's Science Farm Live (2:02)

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week’s vlog, Tom is joined by Deputy President David Exwood, Vice President Rachel Hallos, and NFU Cymru President Aled Jones to explain how the vlog will look a little different moving forward.

They talk about a range of topics including:

• Meetings with farming champion MPs (0.10)
• Meeting Mark Spencer MP, Farming Minister, discussing sugar, SFI and Bluetongue (BTV) (1:26) Read more on SFI: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/sfi-scheme-guidance-and-information/. Read more on BTV: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/bluetongue-essential-information/
• Meeting with Johnathan Reynolds MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, discussing impacts of trade deals and export growth (2:36)
• Our ‘Buy British' button (2:49) Read more: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/buy-british-button/
• Our response to the Budget announcement this week (3:09) Read more: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/spring-budget-2024-nfu-response/
• Our latest statement with UK farming unions and AHDB on Red Tractor (3:45) Read more: https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/red-tractor-reviews/
• Reflecting on the fantastic work done by NFU Cymru this week outside the Senedd with an update from Aled (4:16) Read more: https://www.nfu-cymru.org.uk/news-and-information/stark-wellies-display-puts-the-boot-into-welsh-government-sfs-policy-proposals/

See how the NFU is making a difference: https://www.nfuonline.com/hot-topics/see-how-the-nfu-is-making-a-difference/

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In this week's Farming in Five, meet the brand-new President of the NFU Tom Bradshaw as he recaps on his first week in the job and what the top team's priorities are for the next two years.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/

In the final update of 2023 from NFU President Minette Batters, you can hear all about the launch of the NFU's manifesto ahead of next year's General Election.

From everyone at the NFU we wish you a very Happy Christmas. The update from the President will return in January 2024.

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-now-your-weekly-vlog-from-the-president/