The Government has been accused of ‘failing to honour its promises to farmers’ after Defra Secretary Therese Coffey refused to set out concrete details for the future of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme last week.

Tress planted outside woodlands could be worth as much as £3.8 billion, a new Government study has claimed.

Government disregard for farmers and food production has led directly to the growing food crisis, NFU president Minette Batters has said. 

Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Sir Ed Davey has called on the Government to appoint a cross-departmental minister to address the needs of rural communities.

A new law to reduce farm equipment theft could come into force early next year after it received backing from MPs.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

Shortages for Christmas 2023 could be worse than 2022 with farmers weighing up whether it was worth ’the gamble’

Industry leaders are calling for action after a new report revealed UK farmers are left with less than a penny of the profit of the food they produce.

A scene in a Netflix festive film that appears to show a Great Dane let loose among a flock of sheep for comic effect, has been ‘called out’ by the livestock industry.

The three Environmental Land Management schemes are to remain in place incorporating an enhanced Countryside Stewardship scheme that will be more closely linked to Local Nature Recovery, the Secretary of State for Defra Therese Coffey, has revealed.