Brexit

Farmers will need a serious cash injection from the Government if they are to survive this pandemic, then Brexit, says Deirdre Brock, SNP rural affairs spokesman in Westminster.

The Covid-19 nightmare may have handed UK farming an opportunity to resolve a major Brexit threat – loss of EU labour. Let’s make sure we give our new ‘land army’ a good experience this summer, says George Dunn, chief executive of the TFA.

The NFU has called on the Government to provide a BPS 2020 ‘payment guarantee’ to help farmers struggling with cashflow issues due to the coronavirus pandemic.

With the UK under lockdown as the coronavirus pandemic continues, Parliament is moving to carry out its work remotely. But what does this mean for farming legislation? Abi Kay explores.

The coronavirus outbreak will make it hard to analyse the true economic impact of Brexit on farming, says Eamon Cassells, a beef farmer from County Meath in Ireland.

Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has called on the UK Government to take advantage of any EU cash made available to support farmers through the coronavirus crisis.

Government must intervene to prevent agriculture from collapsing under the strain of the virus or risk hampering the wider economic recovery, says Ben Lake MP for Ceredigion.

The spring of 2020 was expected to be a busy time for the pig sector, with so many anticipated changes coming in the form of new legislation, and welfare and environmental issues going up the wider agenda, says Edward Barker, senior policy advisor at the National Pig Association (NPA).

Helen Browning, Soil Association ceo and organic farmer, shares her thoughts on how the UK can build a more resilient and sustainable food system which would be less exposed to short term shocks and restore a safe climate, abundant nature and good nutrition with Government help. 

Food security, just a few weeks ago in happier times when Parliament was discussing the Agriculture Bill line-by-line, the Farming Minister and I slugged it out over food security, and frankly, very few people noticed, says Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner.