PETERSFIELD and Alton farmers have updated East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds on farming issues and their hopes for the future of agriculture.

The farmers, all members of the National Farmers Union (NFU), discussed post Brexit options for the development of a domestic agriculture policy at a meeting hosted NFU group secretary Richard Buer at Selborne.

He said: “We had a very useful catch-up on topical farming issues and inevitably we discussed post Brexit options for a domestic agriculture policy. During the meeting, the MP indicated that he would assist where possible in any negotiations on a future farming policy.”

The NFU’s biggest ever consultation of its 47,000 farmer and grower members, on the NFU’s ambitious vision for British agriculture post-Brexit, started last month.

NFU members’ views will be collated into a report that will then go before NFU Policy Board on September 29, before final agreement by NFU Council in October.