Farming Leaders Join Forces To Push For Commitments From New Government
NFU President Tom Bradshaw
NFU President, Tom Bradshaw, Grow Yorkshire Chair, Madge Moore, NFU North regional board chair William Maughan (beef, poultry and arable farmer) and Lisa Preston Farm Stay Regional Director held a discussion panel on the opening day of The Great Yorkshire Show to discuss the importance of agriculture to the Yorkshire economy and rural tourism and the challenges farmers are facing.
Farming - directly and in related business - contributes over £3.4 billion to the local economy and official figures reveal that rural tourism provides more than 30,000 jobs in the county.
NFU partners with the two organisations Grow Yorkshire and Farm Stay
Grow Yorkshire is an initiative supported by the New York and North Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA), with their challenging aim to reach carbon zero by 2034.
Farm Stay UK is the only national, independent cooperative for rural tourism accommodation.