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Union president Tom Bradshaw outlines key farming proposals to mark national Self-Sufficiency Day.

"We are seeking views, in a variety of ways, across the UK agri-food industry, but this is your chance to tell us your experiences of farm assurance so that we hear directly from the farming community".

The farming union said more than 80 farmers came together to share ideas at NFU vice-president Rachel Hallos' farm in Ripponden.

Magnus Brown, 21, is a dairy farmer from Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. He is an NFU Student and Young Farmer Ambassador and a trainee solicitor at Roythornes

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But farming leaders urge caution and question size, scale and location of trial held in cull area.

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

During a reception at Downing Street, NFU president Tom Bradshaw had the opportunity to meet PM Sir Keir Starmer as well as Energy and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband

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