Farmers are gathering at protests across the UK as they step up their campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms - which they say would 'decimate' the country's agricultural sector.The National Farmers Union (NFU) is staging a series of events on Saturday as part of a so-called National Day of Unity, with farmers bringing food, tractors and livestock to town centres across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.The events take place after a petition signed by more than 270,

Farmers are gathering at protests across the UK as they step up their campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms - which they say would 'decimate' the country's agricultural sector.The National Farmers Union (NFU) is staging a series of events on Saturday as part of a so-called National Day of Unity, with farmers bringing food, tractors and livestock to town centres across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.The events take place after a petition signed by more than 270,000 members of the public was handed in to 10 Downing Street on Friday by NFU president Tom Bradshaw and NFU Cymru president Aled Jones, urging the Government to ditch what they described as the "devastating family farm tax".