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Labour and Plaid Cymru vote against Welsh Conservative calls to scrap SFS

Today (October 8), the Welsh Conservative called for the Sustainable Farming Scheme to be scrapped as it will supposedly result in the loss of over 1000 Welsh farms

Mia Willemsen
News and business reporter
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Huw Irranca-Davies

The Welsh Labour Government's economic impact assessment to their Sustainable Farming Scheme, published on 30 September 2025, will result in an estimated 56,000 Welsh livestock numbers lost, 1,163 jobs...

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