Week commencing 30 September
NFU in the field – Mon 30 September – Fri 4 October
- NFU county advisers will host MPs on members’ farms. This week Sam Carling MP (Lab, North West Cambridgeshire), Emma Reynolds MP (Lab, Wycombe), Pippa Heylings MP (LD, South Cambridgeshire) and Ben Goldsborough MP (Lab, South Norfolk) will all be on farm.
NFU in the field – Mon 30 September
- NFU Deputy President David Exwood will attend the NFU’s fringe event at the Conservative party conference alongside Shadow Defra Secretary Steve Barclay MP and YouGov’s Director of Political Analytics Patrick English. Associate editor for The Times, Alice Thomson, will host the session.
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw will join CEN and LSE’s panel to discuss ‘how land use change can help us to reach our environmental goals.'
British Agriculture Bureau – Tues 1 October – Weds 2 October
- The LSA Fellowship Scheme (NFU, British Growers Association and The Horticultural Trades Association) will be in Brussels to meet with stakeholders including Growing Media Europe, CropLife Europe and Copa Cogeca.
NFU working for you – Thurs 3 October
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw, along with NFU Director of Policy Andrew Clark and NFU chief renewable energy adviser Jonathan Scurlock, is meeting with Piers Forster, interim chair of the CCC (Climate Change Committee).
NFU events – Thurs 3 October
- The winner of Farming Weekly's Farming Champion of the Year award will be announced. Former winners of the award, which is sponsored by the NFU, include NFU Deputy President Abi Reader and farmers in Ukraine who persevered farming through the war.
See how the NFU has been working for you in previous weeks.