Farm support

Chair of Food and Agriculture Stakeholder Taskforce (FAST), Neil Wilson said the funding needs to be seen to be an investment into the industry and rural economy

This week's opinion from throughout the world of agriculture: James Young - vice-president of Agriculture at McCain Foods GB

The Chancellor's Autumn Budget has brought changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Inheritance Tax rates - help is on hand for anyone struggling to process the news

Deputy First Minister says schemes will help build on-farm resilience for future generations

The big story since I last wrote has to be the decline in the number of dairy farmers. Just to put it into some sort of perspective, when we started First Milk I think we had 3,500 members

From the Danish Government putting a carbon tax on farmers to investing in the next generation following the General Election - these are six farming stories not to miss this week on FG

During a recent debate in the Senedd, Mike Hughes MS, the member for Swansea East, said ‘there is no reasonto subsidise agriculture’, which he claimed ‘is simply putting money into farmers’ pockets’

The announcement was made at the Royal Highland Show today (June 22)

The chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee, Sir Robert Goodwill, has said he intends to look at the possibility of maintaining an element of direct support for ‘small’ farmers.