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The US beef industry has been at the centre of discussion on a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal. In the first of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, Farmers Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the structure of the industry from the ranch to the packing plant.

The UK Government either does not appreciate, or care, about what Brexit is about to bring for farmers, says Deidre Brock, SNP Westminster spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

This Government’s sugar plans, whether changing the tariff regime or refusing to reconsider the neonics ban for beet, prove no Minister is backing British farming, says Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley.

Tight lamb supply has brought higher prices, but will prices sink with a no-deal Brexit? Hannah Binns and Ewan Pate report.

A no-deal Brexit at the end of this year could lead to the premature slaughter of ‘millions of lambs’, a peer has warned, as pressure on the Government to protect agriculture ramped up.

Highly successful British poultry breeding companies are considering relocating if there is significant disruption at the UK-EU border when the Brexit transition period comes to an end in December.

The coronavirus lockdown has pushed the UK into its first recession in 11 years

The Government must fund more farmer-led research to ensure the industry becomes more resilient after leaving the EU, says Liz Bowles, associate director for farming and land use at the Soil Association.

I still care about Brexit, but not as much as I did before the coronavirus made me rethink my priorities, says ag recruiter Phil Garnham.

A House of Lords committee has written to the Trade Secretary to ask what kind of compensation the Government will offer to UK farmers if they are undercut as a result of a US trade deal.