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Welsh farmers and government row over environmental subsidy scheme
Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales, speaking at the Resolution Foundation conference at the QEII Centre in central London, December 4, 2023

TALKS between farmers and Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths calmed the row about environmental changes in exchange for farm subsidies today.

Farmers in Wales have been staging protests about a Welsh government consultation on a scheme whereby they will have to commit to planting 10 per cent of their land with trees and earmark another 10 per cent as wildlife habitat in exchange for public subsidy.

A go-slow protest of tractors took place in Newtown, Powys, on Sunday, where a Labour leadership hustings event was being held.

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