Farm Business

AIMS said the FSA and many of its senior management team had been ‘marking their own homework’ for way too long

Kate Forbes, runner-up in the leadership contest, has turned down the post of Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Islands

It follows news leadership contender Kate Forbes turned down the role

Defra Secretary Therese Coffey made an ill-tempered appearance before MPs this week, telling one Efra Committee member to ‘grow up’ before dismissing his questions on food poverty as ‘pathetic’.

Campaign groups in Wales are urging farmers and landowners to make their feelings known after plans to install 60 miles of steel pylons were revealed by an energy group.

A council’s decision to ban all meat and dairy products from its meetings menu has been branded a ‘slap in the face’ for local farmers by food and rural groups.

Government inaction on sheep worrying is ‘undermining and contradicting’ its own animal health and welfare strategy and leaving farmers and their flocks powerless against dog attacks.

Farming organisations have congratulated Humza Yousaf on winning the Scottish leadership election race to become Scotland’s new First Minister.

IN the second part of his report from a recent AHDB-led export mission to the USA, Ben Briggs assesses the opportunities afforded by the country’s vast food retail scene and also learns about plans to host a large delegation of foreign meat buyers at this year’s Great Yorkshire Show.

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).