When it comes to SFI uptake, about 6,600 applications have been started but not yet submitted and only 800 agreements are live with farmers delivering on required outcomes
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Dr Richard Irvine, who started the role in March 2023, said an expected assessment of the bTB target next year will serve as a ‘formal checkpoint' and an opportunity to ‘take stock' on the issue
Mr Drakeford said ‘no single part of the Welsh Government can regard itself as immune', including agriculture
Agricultural support slashed as Scots Government tries to make up shortfall
The poll of over 1,000 adults in Wales, conducted by YouGov found 82 per cent support the Welsh Government providing financial support to farmers to produce food
Dairy farmer Susie Mottershead said Joyce Watson's MS comments that dairy farmers with chronic TB should find another business was a kick in the teeth. "Never have I felt the mental health of farmers be so completely disregarded. We are that chronic bTB farm," she said
NFU modelling work showed on average upland farm businesses lost 37 per cent of their support payments under the current Sustainable Farming Incentive and Countryside Stewardship options