Politics

The Sheep Game's Cammy Wilson was praised in Scottish Parliament for raising awareness about the consequences of dog attacks on livestock

Shadow Defra Secretary Steve Reed said Labour's rural crime strategy would help fund at least 13,000 additional neighbourhood police officers to protect farmers from crime

NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy said the ‘delayed' release of the Sea Eagle Management Scheme had been ‘enormously disappointing'

The first of AHDB’s four reports into farm assurance across the world has rightly focused on the two countries who have benefited the most from Liz Truss’ time in Government by virtue of their free trade deals: Australia and New Zealand. Both now enjoy enhanced UK access to retailers with – you guessed it – lower standards. Farmers are justifiably not amused

NFU Scotland president Martin Kennedy had called for the agreement to be 'scrapped' earlier this year at the farming union's Glasgow conference

North East Fife MP Wendy Chamberlain said it was time for the Government to pay attention to the issues farmers faced in applying for Universal Credit after going through a challenging period

Defra said farmers can now apply for support which could help growers manage their water resources 'better' for use when droughts occurs

With the focus on landlord-tenant relationships at the NFU tenant conference, some farmers felt more needed to be done to tackle bad practice by landlords and their land agents

NFU, NFU Scotland, NFU Cymru and Ulster Farmers Union are calling on major retailers’ commitment to support the industry following the challenging spring

At the time I pitched this article, Defra announced changes to the Sustainable Farming Incentive to ensure that food production remained the primary purpose of farming – I think that farmers already know this is the purpose