Politics

Two men have been banned from owning or keeping dogs for three years under new legislation to target poachers.

A short term fix to the labour crisis facing agriculture lay in Government hands, if only common sense would prevail on the role of migrant labour.

As Ukraine marks one year since the Russian invasion, Cedric Porter looks at the ripple effect it has had throughout agriculture.

The UK and the EU have reached a new deal over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, which the Prime Minister says will deliver the ’smooth flow of trade’.

NFU president Minette Batters was entirely right when she told delegates on the first morning of her union’s conference that Government’s seemingly blase attitude towards food production needed exposing for what it was, naive.

The SNP leadership race is taking shape with none of the three candidates announced so far having an obvious link with farming.

A Leading horticulture body has hit out at supermarkets saying that retailers’ failure to back British growers over the winter has led directly to empty shelves and rationing.

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer today set out his stall to win the rural vote, declaring that ‘food security is national security’.

A funding package of more than £168m to boost farming productivity has been unveiled by the Government.

NFU president Minette Batters issued a strongly worded message to policymakers warning them that the ‘clock is ticking’ for Government to get behind British farmers and growers.