Thousands of farmers gather for Senedd protest in Cardiff | ITV News

Thousands of farmers gathered outside the Senedd on Wednesday to protest against the Welsh Government's proposed subsidy plans.

It was the latest in a series of protests which have been taking place across Wales over the last month against the proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), among other issues affecting the industry.

One of the main concerns amongst farmers is that the plan, in its current form, would effectively mean they have to give up a fifth of their land to help the environment.

ITV News' Rhys Williams reports.

[LIBERTYCAP]

This is bizzarre! They’re telling the farmers to plant trees yet they’re developing former green belt land into housing estates. WTF is going on????

[AJ-hifd]

When men in suits tell farmers how they should farm starvation is the result.
Remember Mao’s Great Leap Forward, it might have been great for him but resulted in the starvation of millions.

[paulross]

Blimey, ITV actually reporting on the News.

[Ralph]

well done to the welsh farmer for standing firm the people of the united kingdom are standing with you

[mikep]

Farmers are vital. Politicians are a waste of space.

[SweetSassyBull]

Not difficult to hate the Welsh government.

[suraya]

The farmers have The right we support farmers

[petebraven]

Bureaucrats who have never kept a house plant alive let alone run a farm, should spend a week at the sharp end of food production to understand why their daft ideas are unworkable.

[kushcloud]

No bread no milk no good eggs all these things farms bring to us we need to support them well done wales i also stand with the farmers

[helencornes]

Well done farmers. The British public are behind you.

[I_am_not_a_bot-si]

tell the ones making this 20% law you will do it when they give up 20% of their house to a homeless person if they dont do it tell them F hoof

[Alan_ynwa]

Grow trees on some of those beautiful hills etc that Wales is famous for.
There is a hell of a lot of land owned by the councils.... Grow your trees there!!

[martinthoburn]

Just a small taste of what will happen when Labour get to Westminster. Totally support the Welsh farmers and they are right with what they say “no farmers no food”

[hughbeeson]

Who dreamed up this ridiculous “green” agenda? Farmers work hard to keep us all fed so to suggest they prioritise their land for trees is just ridiculous. Surely recreational land is where Councils need to take on responsibility for environmental tree-planting., farm-land is much too valuable as a food-source.

[JB-fknq]

Well done ITV News for properly reporting on this while other so called 'journalists' remain silent. The silent majority are behind the farmers and are not oblivious to the silencing of those trying to bring this to the attention of the wider public. Well done farmers. Keep up the good work. We stand with you and want to be there with you if it can be publicised in advance.

[wr]

Whenever the government says scheme I hear the word scam

[capabilitybrown]

Don't bite the farmer that feeds you, god bless and thanks to all hard working farmers.

[nightmareofkaitos]

No farmers, no food, well done dripford this another fantastic policy that will see Wales all the poorer, the 20 mile an hour speed limit was stupid enough

[ShoJ]

I completely support all the Farmers 👏👏👏

[fionaj]

Farmers grow food for the nation, NOT TREES ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏