{"id":261865,"date":"2025-07-13T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261865\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:13:09","slug":"wales-news-sustainable-farming-scheme-absolutely-right-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261865\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#8217; news Sustainable Farming Scheme absolutely right, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irranca-Davies, Wales&#8217; deputy first minister and secretary for rural affairs and the environment, said the final scheme was &#8220;the result of more than 12 months of intense work&#8221; involving farming unions, meat, livestock and dairy sectors as well as environmental groups &#8220;to get the balance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although he would not give any detail about the scheme, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m002g0kb\/politics-wales-13072025\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Politics Wales<\/a> it was &#8220;going to be unlike anything else that&#8217;s been delivered in the UK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;ll be a whole farm approach and a whole nation approach that delivers for the people of Wales,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They want to see farming that produces good food to high animal welfare standards and also does the right thing for the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The minister would not commit to publishing an impact assessment of the final iteration as he said work was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The assessment of the first iteration of the scheme predicted 5,500 jobs would be lost and livestock numbers would be cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the government is also under pressure from environmentalists to ensure that the plan is ambitious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As 80% of Wales&#8217; landscape is under the care of farmers, it is also argued they have a key role to play in helping the effort to tackle climate change and the losses in nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irranca-Davies, Wales&#8217; deputy first minister and secretary for rural affairs and the environment, said the final scheme was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-261865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}