Labour Government

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

The Defra Secretary Steve Reed and the Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner have also been invited to attend the political session

The session starts at 7pm on October 4

Tenant Farmers Association said it had been given reassurances from a senior Defra official last week that a decision was imminent

"We cannot let Sir Keir Starmer rewrite history"

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

The chair of Labour's Climate and Environment Forum Baroness Young said she hoped the ‘multi-functional' land use framework would be operationally ‘sustainable'

Defra estimated an ASF outbreak could cost the UK between £10 million to £100 million

Mr Ireland also said clauses in tenancy agreements for ‘agricultural use only' must change as they do not fit with the ‘entrepreneurial' ambition of tenants

NFU president Tom Bradshaw warned the Farming Minister that in light of the £358 million pound underspend of the farming budget, Defra was a department ‘very close to failure' if it was not careful