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EXCLUSIVE - Dr Caroline Johnson: "Food production is being deprioritised"

Sleaford and North Hykeham MP Dr Caroline Johnson writes for Farmers Guardian on how Inheritance Tax changes are impacting farming families and how solar farms are undermining farmers' ability to produce food

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Conservative MP Dr Caroline Johnson said: "A sensible land use strategy would not concentrate solar installations on our most productive farmland."
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Conservative MP Dr Caroline Johnson said: "A sensible land use strategy would not concentrate solar installations on our most productive farmland."

As a farmer's wife and MP for a large and rural Lincolnshire constituency, I think British farming, food production and food security are of prime importance. Sadly, this Government's changes to taxation,...

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