Politics

Rural voters have delivered a clear message to the Conservatives as the LibDems made significant rural gains in this week’s local council elections.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.