Politics

'The reality is that the public and other businesses do not know what we do. And to be honest, why should they?'

NFU president Tom Bradshaw warned the Farming Minister that in light of the £358 million pound underspend of the farming budget, Defra was a department ‘very close to failure' if it was not careful

"The joy, fun and satisfaction of farming is disappearing"

The Orkney & Shetland MP says he will be 'first in the queue' to let Government know if it is not doing what it should

Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw Irranca-Davies said: "What we are doing is bringing forward a scheme that is right and accessible to all farmers, in order to do that we need lock the doors, bury ourselves away, and crunch through some serious matters"

Dairy farmer Michael Williams and his vet Rhiannon Lewis are utilising historical test data on-farm to identify ‘residual disease risk' in clear-testing cattle, through the identification and management of high-risk animals for slaughter and improved biosecurity

The Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner attended the Farm Tenancy Forum for the first time since being elected into Government

"It is quite scary when we have one viewpoint being pushed which could hurt so many farm businesses"

"We have lost experienced farming MPs but this is now an opportunity to build back again"

The Tenant Farmers Association has put forward a number of complaints to the council's senior management team