Labour Government

The Conservative party plans to boost the rural economy, cut planning red tape and protect the country's food production and the environment

Farmer confidence in Wales' new Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Climate Change Huw Irranca-Davies will come down to whether her can deliver change. Chief reporter Rachael Brown sat down with him to find out how he hopes to launch the SFS in time for January 2025

As Labour looks to pick up rural votes in the run-up to a General Election, Rachael Brown speaks to Shadow Defra Secretary Steve Reed about the party’s plans for the countryside

He said the cull would continue in the short term, adding there was enough reason to see it was a way of ‘preventing transmission'. But he added it was not a ‘sustainable answer to the problem' and wanted to work with farmers to develop the cattle vaccine

This week's letters from Farmers Guardian readers (October 27)

With voters expected to go the polls in around 12 months' time, livestock farmers told Farmers Guardian future policy on controlling bTB should not be part of ‘the political debate to be used as a vote winner'

Farmers Guardian is at the Labour Party Conference 2023 (October 8 - October 11)

Labour's Defra Secretary Steve Reed said we need to back our farmers to innovate, and adapt and do what the farming sector has always done and that is their 'absolute best for Britain'

Dog walkers and ramblers have flattened crops at Richard Payne's Somerset arable farm, which costs him between £1,500 and £2,500 each year