Industry leader across agriculture share their hopes for the sector in 2025, and the challenges that lie ahead over the next 12 months

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<p>In this episode of the Farmers Guardian&apos;s podcast, industry leaders from across the farming sector share their hopes for 2025 and what challenges agriculture might face in the next 12 months.<br/><br/>NFU president Tom Bradshaw warned a &apos;resolution&apos; on the Chancellor&apos;s Inheritance Tax changes, is an issue that is likely to continue to &apos;hang over the industry&apos; in 2025, calling for a swift resolution from Government. For the tenanted sector, Tenant Farmers Association calls for Defra to ask the law commission to conduct a review into the legislation covering landlord and tenant relationships, looking at the definition for agriculture and rules of good husbandry, which he said were both written in 1947 and &apos;need reform&apos;.<br/><br/>In the pig sector, they call for APHA to be better resourced to cope with ongoing disease threats, and to provide increase funding to the Dover Port Authority, following a surge in illegal pork meat being seized at the port. And in the sheep sector, NSA chief executive hopes farming policy comes together in 2025 to give farmers the ‘inspiration, and confidence&apos;, and financial incentives to invest. </p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/2206410/fan_mail/new">Message us</a></p>