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The government has hired Baroness Minette Batters after months of protests and discontent over the so-called ‘tractor tax’

Once voted the UK’s favourite river, the River Wye flows from the Welsh mountains to the Severn estuary – 150 miles through an officially recognised “national landscape”. But this idyllic picture is changing, as the river is gradually choked by waste from industrial chicken farming.

In today’s newsletter: The government is refusing to back down over its changes to inheritance tax breaks for farmers – here’s why the issue is still rumbling on

Environment secretary will hope move can reset relations with farmers after inheritance tax row

The National Farmers’ Union conference on Tuesday will hear from the organisation’s president Tom Bradshaw and Environment Secretary Steve Reed.

Hospitals, schools and prisons to be given food welfare targets that should benefit British growers

UK food producers plan more protests over inheritance tax changes ahead of this week’s NFU conference in London

Agricultural group representatives met Treasury minister James Murray as anger over the proposed changes to farm inheritance tax continues.

News analysis: The shadow the Britain’s Brexit divide is now undermining farmers’ attempts to reverse Rachel Reeves’ changes to inheritance tax