{"id":5810,"date":"2026-03-13T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:35:46","slug":"maldon-southminster-nfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5810","title":{"rendered":"Maldon &amp; Southminster NFU"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5810\" class=\"elementor elementor-5810\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be89e38 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"be89e38\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45d6cef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"45d6cef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"235\">Sir John met with members of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Farmers&#8217; Union<\/span><\/span> from Maldon and Southminster to discuss the issues affecting local farmers most, including the Family Farm Tax, food security, firearms licensing and rural crime.<\/p><p data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"583\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">During the meeting, Sir John listened to the concerns raised by farmers and discussed the challenges facing the agricultural sector.<\/p><p data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"583\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">While in Westminster, Sir John has been raising these issues in Parliament and with ministerial colleagues. He will continue to press the Government to provide clarity and practical support for British farmers and rural communities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John met members of the National Farmers&#8217; Union in Maldon and Southminster to discuss key rural issues and reaffirmed his commitment to raising farmers\u2019 concerns in Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}