Politics

A combination of changing agriculture policies and high input costs risk putting the ‘best farmers’ in England out of business, a leading rural charity has warned.

Russian military action is blocking about 4.5m tonnes of grain from leaving Ukrainian sea ports, with unsafe, occupied, or even mined areas preventing movements.

The AHDB is heralding its Shape the Future Campaign as a game changer, after more than 10,000 levy payers signed up to have their say on how members’ money is spent.

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.