Watch now: Your weekly vlog from the NFU President

In this week’s vlog, NFU President Tom Bradshaw thanks everyone who has been in touch with their MP, along with those backbench MPs who are standing up for farmers and growers across the UK, to get us to the position we are now in with our Stop the Family Farm Tax campaign.

Tom discusses his meeting with Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson, where Tom conveyed concerns over the impact of the anti-forestalling clause on the elderly and vulnerable.

The President also details his discussions this week with Farming Minister Dame Angela Eagle on SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) arrangements and the re-alignment with the EU, along with SFI and bTB policy.
 
Meanwhile, NFU Combinable Crops Board Chair Jamie Burrows reports from Copa-Cogeca in Brussels, where he tells us more about the discussions he is having around the UK and EU's negotiations on a Common SPS Area.
 
Jamie also urges members to respond to Defra's fairness in the Combinable Crops Supply Chain review – a once-in-a-generation opportunity to convince Defra that it needs to legislate to ensure the supply chain operates fairly and transparently.

Keep up to date with all NFU work with the weekly look ahead. Have a look at where your board members and policy staff will be this coming week.

Weekly look ahead

Week commencing 15 December 2025

Your NFU officeholders, board members and policy staff make sure they represent your needs every day.

Monday 15 December

• NFU Deputy President David Exwood is hosting a meeting with the Rural Payments Agency.
• NFU Food Business Relationship Adviser Charlotte Nott is presenting at the Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum on food waste, discussing priorities for farmers and growers and highlighting key considerations.
• NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending a GB Avian Influenza Core Group meeting to hear the latest updates from Defra and APHA on the current disease outbreak.

Tuesday 16 December 

• The APPG (all-party parliamentary group) for food security is hosting an event in Parliament on biosecurity with MPs, the Dover Port Health Authority and APHA.
• NFU Poultry Adviser Tom Glen is attending an APPG (all-party parliamentary group) for food security meeting in London to discuss biosecurity.

Wednesday 17 December 

• NFU Deputy President David Exwood is speaking to participants on the NFU’s Cereals Development Programme.
• NFU Vice-president Rachel Hallos is chairing a Regional Board Chairs Meeting.
• A fairness in the combinable crops supply chain webinar is taking place for NFU members. Register now for the NFU’s webinar.
• NFU Poultry team is attending a Poultry Health and Welfare Group webinar on avian influenza. You can register online.

Thursday 18 December 

• NFU Deputy President David Exwood is attending the Farming and Countryside Programme senior stakeholder roundtable.
• NFU Vice-president Rachel Hallos is attending the Floods Resilience Taskforce meeting.
• NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending a GB Avian Influenza Core Group meeting to hear the latest updates from Defra and APHA on the current disease outbreak.

Friday 19 December   

• NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending an EPIC (Egg and Poultry Industry Conference) committee meeting to discuss plans for the 2026 conference.