Alistair Carmichael

Farmers Guardian's chief reporter, Rachael Brown analyses the Farming Minister's first appearance before the Efra Committee

Defra joins Sir David Attenborough in supporting The Wildlife Trusts bid to buy the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland

The Farming Minister, Stephen Morgan said: “All the decisions around how the SFI scheme would run this year were made before my appointment into the department"

More than 500 survey responses make for 'troubling reading' says Alistair Carmichael

The report found that too often the experience of farmers, landowners and gamekeepers was 'ignored or overlooked' by government and its agencies.

The European Union officially banned most meat and animal product imports from Brazil on September 3 2026

Alistair Carmichael criticised Natural England for its ‘resistance' and sometimes ‘resentment' towards being questioned

Party Conference fringe event told Liberal Democrats will deliver the level of respect farming and the rural way of life deserve

NFU fringe event hears how MPs and councillors could back farmers by removing barriers to investment at both local and national level

Speaking at the Westmorland Show, MPs encouraged farmers to watch what they were investigating