Farm Business

Large scale criminals are targeting farm produce during a cost-of-living crisis

It follows years of campaigning from the UK farming unions

NFU president Minette Batters delivered her last speech as leader of the farming organisation at the NFU Conference in Birmingham

Rishi Sunak spoke at NFU conference 2024 today (February 20)

Fertiliser prices spiralled ahead of and following the invasion, hitting unprecedented highs in summer 2022

Planned tax changes have been reversed, seven days after being introduced.

LIVE from the National Farmers Union (NFU) Conference 2024 - Get all the latest updates from the Farmers Guardian news team

Former Defra Secretary Michael Gove has announced new rules to give councils greater power to control short-term lets

Mrs Batters questions which party will set a target for food production with a statutory underpinning? She said there was currently an imbalance between environment and food production in government policy

Grants, SFI extensions, cuts to red tape and supply chain intervention all named as Prime Minister vows to stand by farmers