Scottish MPs raised that they felt the Bill was straying into areas of devolved competence;
the need for new measures of success for agriculture beyond yield;
the lack of provision for farm advice in the Bill, to support farmers to make the transition;
a lack of vision to protect rural communities;
a lack of provision to protect agricultural workers;
Environment:
the need to maintain food production abroad so not to risk offshoring the UK's environmental impact;
disappointment that the Bill is not clearer about financially rewarding a transition to 'agroecology', or a whole-farm approach to agriculture with the environment at its core;
the need to enshrine baseline environmental standards that all farmers should adhere to, whether in receipt...