National Farmers Union president Peter Kendall called for greater priority to be put on flood defences to protect agricultural land. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme at the opening of the NFU's national conference in Birmingham, Mr Kendall said: "We have to put lives and human safety first, but we have to put a higher priority on agricultural land as well. "We have turned our waterways into wildlife habitats and we have stopped clearing them. For people to say that a fallen tree is a...
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