Sheep

Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has rejected the NFU’s call for a Trade Commission to explore ways to protect food production standards in UK trade policy.

An agricultural think tank has warned commercial farming is being ‘written out’ of emerging post-Brexit policy, despite the fact that fewer than 10 per cent of farm businesses produce over half the UK’s agricultural output.

EU farm and food chain groups have called for temporary arrangements to be put in place to protect trade with the UK in the event that a free trade deal cannot be agreed by the end of the year.

A Parliamentary group has called on the Government to develop a ‘UK Strategy for Abattoirs’ in order to stem the tide of small slaughterhouse closures.

The Prime Minister has backed a plan from Defra Secretary George Eustice to slap high tariffs on imports of sub-standard food.

Good soil health is one of the drivers behind strong grassland results. Hannah Park reports.

New season lambs fell by 5 per cent to 249p/kg in the week to May 27 and old season prices were 11 per cent lower at 187p/kg.

Sheep farmers Peter Williams and Bedwyr Jones are the first to bring the ‘fat tailed’ Damara breed into the UK.

In order to collaboratively investigate ways to deliver nature-friendly farming, 120 farms across the South Downs have formed into six ‘farm clusters’.

With the industry still geared towards a net zero emissions target, carbon accounting could be increasingly demanded to explain and improve farm business carbon output. Hannah Park reports.