Producers unveil union reforms

The changes, uveiled by the union on July 11, will be its biggest set of reforms in its 95-year history.

Plans include relocating to a new Warwickshire base and major alterations to the NFU's committee and staffing structures.

NFU president Ben Gill said: 'The world in which farming operates is changing rapidly, even more so following the agreed major reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy. Too many of our structures and practice were designed for a past that no longer exists.' Other plans include a new composition for the NFU Council, the union's governing body, to include county chairmen and the discontinuation of the post of treasurer.