The Prime Minister, Theresa May will be setting out the UK Government's plans for a post-Brexit farming policy at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd today.

She will say the UK will maintain environmental protections, safeguard animal welfare and support the production of high quality food.

She plans to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy - which awards subsidies based on the amount of land farmed - with a new system of public money for public goods.

Alan Davies, managing director of the FUW, said he would reiterate to the prime minister "the need to guarantee quickly how much money Wales is going to get".

First Minister,Carwyn Jones,claimed farming could be “destroyed” in Wales if their farmers do not get the funds they were “promised”.

He said: “If we don’t get the money that we were promised from the UK Government, farming is going to get destroyed in Wales because the promise was that Wales would not lose out a single penny in funding, is that promise going to be kept on?

“If it is going to be kept on, fine, we can make sure that whilst farmers are not disadvantaged, those who pushed Brexit, can stand up and keep their promises.”

Mrs May will be meeting with farmers and agricultural organisations including the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, Farmers Union Wales, NFU Cymru and the CLA. The Prime Minister will reiterate her commitment to maintaining current funding levels until the end of this Parliament to ensure farmers have the certainty they need to plan for their business.

Prior to today's visit Mrs May said: “Leaving the EU presents us with a unique opportunity to transform our food, farming and environmental policies so we can have a healthy and prosperous agricultural industry that is fit for the future, and helps us to leave the environment in a better place than we found it.

Scrapping the Common Agricultural Policy, and introducing a simpler system which provides funds in return for public goods, like improving water quality, reducing emissions and planting wild flower meadows to boost biodiversity, is fundamental to our new approach.

I want to make the most of the freedoms provided by Brexit to design a new scheme that is less bureaucratic, and does away with the overly prescriptive information farmers currently have to provide to apply for grants.

And while our proposals are for England only, I look forward to working with the Farming unions, Welsh Government and stakeholders to best serve our farmers here as they develop a scheme specific to Wales.”