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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for polenta with buttery garlic mushrooms

You can’t beat polenta with buttery mushrooms: it’s a hug in a bowl

The Guardian - UK

The nut of the future! 17 delicious ways with pistachios, from cakes to salads to cocktails

Pistachio farmers are having a bumper year – and looking forward to many more. These recipes will help you make the most of the glut

The Guardian - UK

Scottish farmer says inheritance tax will have 'devastating' impact on Scotland

Alasdair Macnab, who farms south of Dingwall, was one of the farmers who took part in the protest in London last week against the new inheritance…

The National (Scotland)

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‘Sitting with their head in their hands’: farm equipment suppliers fear for impact of budget

Traders at a big machinery show say inheritance tax changes affecting the rural economy have had an immediate impact on business

The Guardian - UK

California child becomes first minor reported with case of bird flu

Infection brings number of US bird flu cases this year to 55, including 29 in California, says CDC

The Guardian - US

Separating wheat from chaff in the farm tax debate

Letters: Readers respond to an editorial about farmers having to pay inheritance tax when selling agricultural property priced at more than £1m

The Guardian - UK

Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes

British farmers are protesting against proposals in the recent budget to change inheritance tax relief on farms. They claim the change will force many farm families to sell land in order to pay tax bills. While that is debatable, this is only the latest grievance for farmers who have had…

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Environment Secretary says he has ‘heard anguish of countryside’ after protests

Steve Reed announced plans for a 25-year farming road map to help agriculture move to a more environmentally and financially sustainable future.

Evening Standard

French farmers call off border blockade after talks with Prime Minister Barnier

French farmers protesting pay and conditions and a prospective EU-Latin America trade deal have lifted a blockade on the Spanish border after an expression of support from Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

Radio France Internationale

GOP control could doom Farm Bill passage

Now that Republicans control the House, Senate and White House, it's unlikely the bill will pass before 2025

Salon

French Farmers Lift Border Blockade After Talks With PM

French farmers protesting pay and conditions and a prospective EU-Latin America trade deal on Wednesday lifted a blockade on the Spanish border after an expression of support from Prime Minister Michel Barnier.

International Business Times

Tories claim economic approach of ‘Starmerism’ could further hit farmers

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the ‘vast majority’ of estate owners will not be affected by the Government’s inheritance tax changes.

Evening Standard

Why have British farmers marched on UK’s Parliament?

British farmers say they will be forced to sell farms under inheritance tax reforms.

Al Jazeera

Wednesday briefing: Why farmers won’t take Starmer’s inheritance tax land grab lying down

In today’s newsletter: Governments are clashing with the agricultural sector across Europe – it’s a complex battle that involves everything from the climate crisis to the far right

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Labour wants tax rises to fall on the ‘broadest shoulders’. The farmers furore shows why that’s so hard to achieve

In place of precision-targeted revenue raids, Reeves needs to win a bigger argument about the reason we have taxes, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

‘A way of life’: farmers in Westminster express fears for their futures

Thousands brave plummeting temperatures to protest against plans they claim could bring the death of their farms

The Conversation

Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red

In villages across the country, irate farmers have accused the government of trying to end the tradition of the family farm by scrapping agricultural property relief, a measure which previously sheltered farms from having to pay inheritance tax on farmland.

The Conversation

How a dairy farm could help prevent prisoners from reoffending

Prisons and the justice system often make headlines for issues like overcrowding or sentencing, but there’s a quieter, more transformative side to life behind bars that rarely gets attention.

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The National (Scotland)

'We're going to make them listen': Farmers collar Scottish Labour MPs over tax raid

SCOTTISH farmers have vowed “to make Labour listen” as hundreds joined a 10,000-strong march on Westminster to protest Keir Starmer’s tax raid…

Evening Standard

Farmers in tweed, children on toy tractors and celebrities join London protest

Around 13,000 people gathered to voice opposition to proposed changes to agricultural inheritance tax outlined in the Budget.

Evening Standard

Many farmers ‘wrong’ about inheritance tax change, Environment Secretary says

Steve Reed rejected claims that the Government has underestimated how many will be affected by the plans.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The farmer's protest is a consequence of Labour's pre-election tax choices

A day like today is not a day for false dichotomies, we can leave those at home. But governments generally face a simple choice when it comes to raising money, between broad-based taxes (e.g. income tax) or granular (e.g. inheritance tax threshold changes for farmers). Both have their advantages and disadvantages, as is being…

International Business Times

French Farmers Threaten 'Chaos' Over Proposed EU-Mercosur Deal

French farmers stepped up their protests Tuesday against a proposed trade pact between the European Union and four South American countries, blocking a key motorway on the border with Spain and vowing to sow "chaos."

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Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm Overcomes Hurricane To Deliver Hope

Discover the heartwarming story of Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm overcoming challenges to provide the White House tree, symbolizing resilience and communit...

Evening Standard

Reeves urged to meet farmers over inheritance tax change as protest kicks off

Celebrities including Jeremy Clarkson, who warns the policy is a ‘blunderbuss’ that has hit farmers, joined a rally in Whitehall.

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