Politics

This week from Farmers Guardian readers: William Taylor, Farmers For Action co-ordinator, discusses the decision to pause a UK-wide farm protest and the push for a Farm Welfare Bill

Aberfeldy beef and sheep farmer Martin Kennedy has urged Defra to reconsider taking forward an industry-led approach to adopting ultra high frequency bovine electronic identification across the UK

Should ultra-processed foods be banned in schools?

Farmers said everyone wants food to be affordable, but it cannot be done at the expense of undermining the people who produce it

Sir Ed Davey has called for the Government to back British farmers hammered by spiking costs

US President Donald Trump said the King played an influential role in his decision to remove tariffs on Scotch whisky

Bad practices need to be called out in farming, but tarring all farms with the same brush is totally unacceptable

Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said 12% of the UK's most fertile and productive farmland is being eaten up by solar and energy projects

This week from the Farmers Guardian deputy editor Alex Black