Politics

While food and farming in general may have been absent from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget speech last week, the news that the scope of inheritance tax agricultural property relief was to be considered could have a significant bearing on the future of many farm businesses.

The countryside is battling a ‘hidden homelessness and poverty’ emergency driven by soaring house prices, the cost-of-living crisis and a ‘gaping shortfall’ in Government funding, a new report has revealed.

MPS have voted to back the Stormont Brake section of the new Windsor Framework, which aims to ease trade between Northern Ireland and the UK.

Businesses need to have a plan to prosper through the period of change to Scottish farm support, with inflation eroding support payments in real terms across the UK.

Indian farmers have called off a protest march on Mumbai over onion prices after receiving assurances from the state Government.

The DUP will not back the proposed Windsor Framework when it goes before Parliament this week.

AHDB’s export team was in Dallas, Texas, last week for the Annual Meat Conference (AMC) as the levy board sought to promote British beef and lamb in the States. Ben Briggs joined the delegation and reports from the

Arguments between Government departments are playing a key role in denying British farmers the supply of the seasonal labour they need.

As grain prices trade at their weakest since the start of the Ukraine war, Cedric Porter takes a look at the factors impacting the market.

Political thinking around trade deals and agricultural policy risks undermining farmers’ roles in stemming the nature crisis, the head of the RSPB has warned.