The Government has announced that it will retain the cut-off date for registering historic rights of way, reflecting the original intention of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW).

While food and farming in general may have been absent from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget speech last week, the news that the scope of inheritance tax agricultural property relief was to be considered could have a significant bearing on the future of many farm businesses.

The countryside is battling a ‘hidden homelessness and poverty’ emergency driven by soaring house prices, the cost-of-living crisis and a ‘gaping shortfall’ in Government funding, a new report has revealed.

MPS have voted to back the Stormont Brake section of the new Windsor Framework, which aims to ease trade between Northern Ireland and the UK.

The latest inflation figures may have been unexpected for economists and politicians but they came as ’no surprise’ to food producers.

The DUP will not back the proposed Windsor Framework when it goes before Parliament this week.

A farm in Lincolnshire was today besieged by police officers after a body was spotted in a field by a train passenger.

Jeremy Clarkson has once again hit the headlines, after his Diddly Squat Farm became embroiled in council battle over plans to extend the car park on the presenter’s Cotswold-based property.

This week’s budget has garnered a mixed response from the farming sector, with some raising concerns that energy support for business and rural levelling up have been side lined in favour of more general economic gains, while others have welcomed clarity on property relief, pensions and machinery expenditure.

A new campaign to ‘Spare our land for food and nature’ has been launched by countryside charity CPRE.