New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been urged to protect farm budgets, with big spending cuts expected to be made over the coming months.

The Government has been urged to publish an analysis of the risks its trade deal with New Zealand pose to food security.

More than three-quarters of managers working in the agricultural sector (78 per cent) believe there is a direct conflict between food production and the delivery of environmental outcomes, according to a recent survey.

Defra has been urged to publish its modelling on how the withdrawal of direct payments will affect farms in the uplands.

Concerns have been raised about the effectiveness of the UK’s border controls, after vehicles importing food were found to contain unlabelled meat and flax seeds with illegally high pesticide residue levels.

Future farm policy has been plunged into uncertainty once more, as Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after just 45 days in office.

NFU president Minette Batters has called for Defra’s labelling plans to be ‘killed off’, warning they will allow Ministers to import sub-standard food into the country in the name of consumer choice.

NFU president Minette Batters has called for Defras labelling plans to be killed off, warning they will allow Ministers to import sub-standard food into the country in the name of consumer choice.

MPs have moved to offer farms legal protection from disruptive protestors.

Animal welfare and public health concerns have been raised in Northern Ireland (NI), as post-Brexit rules are set to leave the country facing the loss of around half of its veterinary medicines.