Farmers threaten to quit NFU as leader backs scrapping of nature subsidies

Prominent members of farmers' union express dismay after comments by Minette Batters

Farmers are threatening to quit the National Farmers' Union after its leader said she supported the UK government's apparent move to scrap post-Brexit nature subsidies.

This weekend, the Observer revealed that the government was poised to abandon the Brexit bonus", which would have paid farmers and landowners to enhance nature, in what wildlife groups have described as an all-out attack" on the environment.