Struggling Farmers Left Feeling ‘Abandoned’ as Budget Fails to Ease Pressure

Budget is still stranglehold on farmers, warns UUP

Mr Robert Carmichael, the East Londonderry Ulster Unionist Party association chairman, has branded the recent autumn budget by Chancellor John Healey as “no breathing space, but a stranglehold on the farming community in the constituency and across the wider Province”.

Budget misses mark to drive "meaningful change" for county farms

The NFU has said the Budget was a massive missed opportunity to drive meaningful change for Lincolnshire family farms.

Budget a 'massive missed opportunity'

The Autumn Budget is “a massive missed opportunity, with no breathing space for Britain’s food production”, according to the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Reacting to the Autumn Budget, NFU president Tom Bradshaw said: “Today was an opportunity for government to act on the warm words it made over the summer. “It has failed to act and has left farmers feeling abandoned.” According to Bradshaw, the Office for Budget Responsibility has highlighted…

Government’s token gestures will do little to ease financial burden for farmers: MP

DUP Agriculture spokesperson Carla Lockhart MP has criticised the Chancellor’s Budget for failing to deliver meaningful support for British farmers, warning that token gestures will do little to ease the financial pressures facing farm businesses.

'We need action' as farmers facing 'major turmoil'

NFU chair Jane Bassett urges the Chancellor’s Budget to support Herefordshire farmers.