Farmers from Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are invited to the NFU West Midlands regional crops board on 31 January.

The main agenda item will look at how the arable sector can reduce its emissions footprint between 2025 and 2030 on a crop, enterprise, and whole farm level.

Farmers’ views will be fed into policy specialists at NFU headquarters and the guest speaker at the meeting will be Ceris Jones, NFU climate change adviser, who will give a presentation.

Andrew Williamson, NFU regional crops chairman, who farms near Bridgnorth, said: “The combinable crops sector is taking the climate challenge seriously and is committed to measuring and reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions footprint.

“We are committed to this while producing food, feed, and fibre for a global market, and continually improving the farmed environment.

“With ongoing market volatility, mounting input price pressure, and increasingly extreme weather events, ensuring combinable crops production is climate-resilient and low carbon is key to a sustainable future.

“I would urge as many NFU members as possible to attend.”

The meeting will be held at 10.30am at NFU West Midlands regional office, Agriculture House, Southwater Way, Telford.

Tea and coffee will be available from 10am and there will be a buffet lunch afterwards.

Farmers are asked to book to help with catering and to do this and for further details please call 01952 400500.