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With the recent announcement of its ‘Farming for Nature’ programme, Farmers Guardian's chief reporter Rachael Brown spoke to Waitrose’s Jake Pickering about the retailer’s relationship with farmers

Commissioners include Dr Llewellyn, the former vice-chancellor of Harper Adams University, James Withers, ex chief executive of Scotland Food and Drink, Mark Suthern, the chair of Trustees of the Farming Community Network, and a fourth Commissioner whose appointment is in progress

Speaking at the Pig and Poultry fair Red Tractor's head of operations, Philippa Wiltshire, stressed lessons were being learned, especially in areas important to farmers — ‘value, audit efficiency and transparency'

Following her appointment to the Co-op board, Christine Tacon has announced her intention to step down as Red Tractor Chair

Graham’s Family Dairy, Scotland’s largest independent dairy, has seen an increase in sales of cottage cheese equivalent to the weight of two million kilograms per year

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told tenant farmers last week that the scheme was a ‘victim of its own success' amid a rising demand for consumer and retailer assurance

National Pig Association chair Rob Mutimer said: "The bill for deforestation soya is a three figure increase on what market soya is at the moment"

The retail giant is the latest supermarket to create a Best of British section online

Polling commissioned by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission found 62 per cent of the British public wanted greater intervention to ensure farmers are treated fairly