Politics

Landowners and tenant farmers have been urged to work together if they want to capitilise on the Government’s new agricultural policy, it has been revealed.

NFU Cymru has been left ‘incredibly disappointed’ after a judicial review of the Welsh Government’s decision to introduce new water quality regulations was dismissed by the High Court today.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was accused of abandoning farmers to cope with a ‘botched’ system, following the unveiling of his Spring Statement on Wednesday.

Farmers Guardian News and Business Reporter Hannah Binns talks to Dave Handley, Paul Tompkins and Gary Mitchell, NFU Scotland’s milk committee chair about their thoughts on AHDB.

George Eustice told the BBC farmers had managed to recoup subsidy losses through increased farm gate prices

George Eustice told the BBC farmers had managed to recoup subsidy losses through increased farm gate prices

Demands to protect consumers and to impose a windfall tax to prevent companies cashing in on the growing fuel crisis have this week been issued by rural groups.

The Government’s Environmental Land Management scheme (ELMs) has been branded a ‘deliberate assault’ on farming by Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron.

With warmer weather making a very much welcome return and providing some relief for farmers everywhere, it is also a reminder that the year is marching on and that spring has sprung for many.

Defra’s blase attitude that the Ukraine-Russia war is not expected to have a ‘significant direct impact on UK food supply’ has been lambasted by farmers.