Politics

Defra criticised for 'missing the point' when it comes to its new entrant pilot schemes

The Tenant Farmers Association said each week it was hearing from a ‘growing number' of farmers losing access to tenanted land or being told their Farm Business Tenancies would not be renewed

With voters expected to go the polls in around 12 months' time, livestock farmers told Farmers Guardian future policy on controlling bTB should not be part of ‘the political debate to be used as a vote winner'

All eyes are now on the Welsh Government to continue the stability of payments for Welsh farmers going forward. Future financial certainty being questioned now more than ever following the cuts made to the rural affairs budget

Action described as 'punch in stomach' as farmers battle agricultural transition

The decision followed a meeting on Monday (October 16) involving both Red Tractor and the British Farming Union

NFU deputy president Tom Bradshaw said it was 'something the union had been fearing'

Dozens of dairy farmers and workers in Israel have been gunned down close to the Gaza border by Hamas

North-East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said he wanted to see the UK import hormone-injected beef into the UK because it was 'delicious and cheap'

This week's letters from Farmers Guardian readers