Farming resilience needed for food security, NFU leader says

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THE Government must support farmers with high energy costs and invest in managing rivers and water to make the food system “resilient”, a farming leader is urging.

National Farmers’ Union (NFU) leader Tom Bradshaw is also warning farmers cannot have “the goalposts constantly moving” if they are going to deliver environmental benefits in the countryside, as they await more details of reforms to the flagship sustainable farming initiative (SFI).

At the NFU’s annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday, Mr Bradshaw said that a failure to build resilience in farming threatens domestic food production and therefore food security, national security and economic growth.