Politics

The influential position of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Select Committee chair is up for grabs after Conservative MP Neil Parish resigned over a porn scandal last week.

New powers to tackle hare coursing and illegal encampments were enshrined in law last week, after the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act was given Royal Assent.

A new water strategy is being devised for England, but will it really stop the ‘boom and bust’ of floods and drought that farming increasingly faces? And how can farmers play their part? Jez Fredenburgh reports in the second part of our short series on water.

Agricultural groups have appealed to ministers to put food and farming at the forefront of the new Natural History GSCE which was unveiled recently.

A former Northern Ireland Government vet who resigned from her job after raising concerns about animal welfare has received an unreserved apology and a major payout.

Farmers must take a different approach to waste and the ‘cycle of life’ if they are to meet the challenges posed by global economic forces, Defra secretary George Eustice has insisted.

Neil Parish, Tory MP and chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, has resigned after admitting he viewed pornographic material on his phone while in the House of Commons.

Farmers must not be forced to pay the price for retailers waging a cost-cutting war, industry leaders have warned.

Farmers Guardian’s #FarmingCAN campaign has sought to place agriculture in the context of wider rural growth and prosperity since it launched last year.

Minette Batters told NFU Council failure to implement a strategy to underpin food security would suggest the Government was focused on putting farmers out of business