CLA responds to newly-published TAC report

Responding to the Trade and Agriculture Commission Report published today, Country Land & Business Association President Mark Bridgeman said:

“It is encouraging to see the report recognise that maintaining and further improving our high animal welfare and environmental standards is critical to the future of farming.

“We should never apologise for our high standards, they are the foundations on which British farming are built. The public should be proud of them and Government should not only defend them, but put them at the heart of the UK’s international trade strategy.

“It is inevitable that the sector will continue to restructure post-Brexit, but in farming the line between success and failure is often very thin. So, as we continue our transition away from the old subsidies and towards the new Environmental Land Management Schemes, Government must do all it can to provide certainty and stability to a sector that is determined to feed the nation and beyond, but somewhat weary of never quite knowing the direction Government is taking us.”