Politics

Farmers and industry fear the Red Tractor's proposed Greener Farms Commitment is being introduced to fulfil retailers' wider green promise

Caringorms group launches direct action as German farmers bring Berlin to a standstill

The Department for Agriculture, environment and rural affairs have issued a proposal to reduce the compensation rate for cattle removed under the bovine Tuberculosis programme

Professor Julia Aglionby said pitching farming for food as the destroyer of nature was 'disingenuous, lazy and damaging'

Farmers said Defra must value the grassland landscapes and biodiversity that upland farms provide

This week from Farmers Guardian's editor Olivia Midgley

UFU president David Brown said: "We have received many complaints from frustrated members informing us that DAERA's IT system is not working to full capacity. This level of service is completely unacceptable."

Defra Secretary, Steve Barclay said he had listened to farmers, bringing what he said was a clearer focus on enabling food production in environmental land management schemes

Normally the family aim to milk a herd of around 120 cows, but at the moment they are only milking 70 cows

Farmer Glenda Crawshaw said the Rural Affairs Minister was treating farmers ‘very poorly', criticising the lack of clarity over the future of organic funding