Politics

Farm groups have expressed their anger after the UK formally signed the Australian trade deal, with leaders claiming it is ‘devoid of common sense’.

Farm groups have expressed their anger after the UK formally signed the Australian trade deal, with leaders claiming it is devoid of common sense.

That the country needs coherent solutions to the structural problems it faces around labour and creaking supply chains is nothing new. Whether it has a Government fit enough to deliver such solutions is another matter altogether.

The Immigration Minister, Kevin Foster, has refused to accept there is a crisis in the pig sector caused by labour shortages.

The Government has made a number of important announcements affecting farming in recent months. Abi Kay speaks to Defra Secretary George Eustice to get the inside track on the latest developments.

When the UK nations started formulating their own farming policies in wake of leaving the EU, there was much talk of ’pushing money up the hill’; the insinuation being that those in the uplands would be properly rewarded for their role in managing the environment at a landscape scale.

A Government push to make farming ever more reliant on ‘technologies of control’ such as big data, AI, quantum computing and biotech risks undermining the UK’s food security, a leading academic has warned.

A Government push to make farming ever more reliant on technologies of control such as big data, AI, quantum computing and biotech risks undermining the UKs food security, a leading academic has warned.

Farmers are being encouraged to become more and more reliant on technologies of control such as big data, AI and biotech. But is this really a good idea? Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City, University of London, explores.

A claim from the director of Wildlife Trusts Wales that growth hormones from livestock are found in Welsh waters has been slapped down by a Member of the Senedd (MS).