Politics

Leading scientists from across the world have warned the current methodology for recording methane emissions from livestock is distorting our understanding of climate change.

The Tenant Farmers Association has warned landlords are pursuing rent rises more fervently this year to cushion the blow of upcoming Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) cuts.

A push to plant trees across Scotland has driven marginal grazing land prices up, with a knock-on effect on better land.

A dairy farmer has said it ‘beggars belief’ that the media have launched a campaign to save a single bTB-positive alpaca while ignoring the 160,000 cattle which have been destroyed during the 4-year fight to keep him alive.

Do you ever get the feeling that some politicians and Ministers have little or no empathy for British agriculture?

The Board of Trade, a Government body headed up by Trade Secretary Liz Truss, has claimed buying local food is ‘not always the most environmentally sustainable choice’.

Farmers have reacted angrily to a threat from Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths to ‘close’ chicken sheds in order to tackle water pollution.

Trade Minister Greg Hands has said Australia can put up a reasonable case that it has good standards of animal welfare in food production.

Trade Minister Greg Hands has said Australia can put up a ‘reasonable case’ that it has good standards of animal welfare in food production.

The Government has announced that funding to help English farmers tackle water and air pollution on their land will be doubled.