The prime minister will announce a package of measures on Tuesday to help farmers - but many say more is needed to support an industry "in crisis".
She added that she believed farmers had to go through too much bureaucracy to access government grants, while being undercut by cheaper food imports from countries with lower welfare standards than the UK."British farming is in a crisis," Mrs Lewis said. He will also announce plans to cut bureaucracy around permitted development rights, so farmers can more easily diversify and develop new businesses, such as farm shops, commercial space and sporting venues.
He will tell delegates: 'We'll never take our food security for granted. We've got a plan to support British farming."But ahead of the conference, many farming campaign groups said the government needed to do more and protests, like those in Dover over the weekend, may follow. "But we are tied to high standards as well, so it means that we are farming as a charity in many ways."