Politics

Farming bodies have welcomed the new Windsor Framework, hailing the post-Brexit trade deal as a ‘positive’ step for agriculture in Northern Ireland.

DEFRA Secretary Therese Coffey has suggested producer organisations ‘should really take the lead’ in promoting UK produce to global markets.

The NFU horticulture sector has set out its ambitious 10-point plan to boost the embattled horticulture sector, saying that ‘empty shelves’ will force Government to address its demands.

Common sense, it would appear, has made an unlikely return to Government and facilitated positive steps between the UK and EU in relation to Northern Ireland in the post-Brexit era.

To mark St David’s Day, visitors to Cardiff Castle are being asked to show their support for Welsh food and drink by sharing snaps of a specially commissioned heart-shaped daffodil installation.

Two men have been banned from owning or keeping dogs for three years under new legislation to target poachers.

A short term fix to the labour crisis facing agriculture lay in Government hands, if only common sense would prevail on the role of migrant labour.

As Ukraine marks one year since the Russian invasion, Cedric Porter looks at the ripple effect it has had throughout agriculture.

The UK and the EU have reached a new deal over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, which the Prime Minister says will deliver the ’smooth flow of trade’.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.