Politics

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee has urged Ministers to treat the UK abattoir network as a strategic national asset.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee has urged Ministers to treat the UK abattoir network as a ‘strategic national asset’.

The Government has announced it intends to cut red tape to make research and development of gene editing (GE) technology easier, following the UK’s departure from the EU.

Labour MP and vice chairman of the party’s ‘Just Transition Working Group’, Alan Whitehead, has claimed most livestock farmers will not be rearing animals in 20 years’ time.

The UK Government has offered the best prize of zero tariff, zero quota market access to the ‘worst producers in the world’ as part of its Australia trade deal, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) UK has warned.

The UK Government has offered the best prize of zero tariff, zero quota market access to the worst producers in the world as part of its Australia trade deal, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) UK has warned.

The Labour Party has promised to give one Minister in every Government department responsibility for rural affairs.

The Prime Minister has announced lamb will be able to be exported to the US for the first time in decades despite the President playing down the prospects of a US-UK trade deal

The Welsh Government has set out plans to introduce its new Sustainable Farming Scheme in January 2025.

But the union leaders’ top priority was lobbying MPs and ministers over the labour crisis