Since leaving the EU, there’s been a policy vacuum in agriculture. We’ll maintain payments to family farming businesses while accelerating the rollout of the better Environmental Land Management schemes. We’ll increase the farming budget by £1 billion a year to support a transition to nature-friendly farming.
In its haste to show progress the government has agreed bad trade deals with Australia and New Zealand which undermine UK food production standards. We must not let our farmers be undercut by lower quality products and we’ll renegotiate where necessary.
We will stand up for Britain’s farmers and enable them to trade more easily with our European neighbours by negotiating comprehensive veterinary and plant health agreements. Far from cutting red tape, a clumsy Brexit has made things very much worse!
We’ll help farmers restore woodland and peatland, create new natural flood protections and manage land to encourage species recovery and carbon storage, on marginal land, which does not significantly contribute to food security.
Farmers from across Sussex came together at Trenchmore Farm near Cowfold to discuss the Lib Dem approach to farming and rural communities with Stuart Roberts, the party’s national spokesman and former deputy president of the National Farmers Union (NFU).
The Liberal Democrats are committed to supporting British farming to continue safeguarding our environment and producing the high quality food we all want for generations to come.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats have secured a significant amendment to the Welsh Agriculture Bill in the Senedd today
