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The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee is urging the Government to allow proper parliamentary scrutiny of any trade deal with Australia, amid mounting concerns about the agreements impact on UK farming.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee is urging the Government to allow ‘proper parliamentary scrutiny’ of any trade deal with Australia, amid mounting concerns about the agreement’s impact on UK farming.

If we want to preserve the future desirability of British food, then, according to the results of a British Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ (BGAJ) survey, we need to mobilise an army of Brexit voting women over the age of 55 to take charge of the nation’s shopping.

Exports are steadily climbing up again but they are well below year-earlier levels. Cedric Porter analyses the latest trading data.

Labour Shadow Defra Secretary Luke Pollard gives his views on the UK-Australia trade deal, and explains why he believes the Government intends to put family farms out of business.

Farming groups have blasted the Government’s decision to agree a free-trade deal with Australia, calling it a ’betrayal’. 

Brazilian exports of sugar to the UK rocketed in the first quarter of 2021 as a direct result of the UK’s post-Brexit tariff regime.

Brazilian exports of sugar to the UK rocketed in the first quarter of 2021 as a direct result of the UKs post-Brexit tariff regime.

Farm chiefs are worried about a Government plan to grant tariff-free access to Australia which they say risks undermining British producers and Ministers’ own pledges to maintain high standards in new deals.

Farmers can expect big changes on animal welfare laws over the coming years, with the Government setting out plans for two new landmark Bills in this week’s Queen’s Speech.