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Beef producers are in a strong position to capitalise on growing retail demand for British product which has seen liveweight and deadweight prices for mid-June rise 4.8 per cent and 5.3 per cent respectively on last year.

New Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland David Duguid speaks exclusively to Ewan Pate on trade, business confidence and why he voted against legal protection for UK food standards.

A House of Lords committee has warned agricultural disputes between the UK Government and devolved nations will become ‘increasingly likely’ after Brexit.

Strong export sales helped pig and poultry processor Cranswick increase sales by 16 per cent to 1.66 billion and profits by 14 per cent to 105 million in the year to the end of March.

Trade Secretary Liz Truss has announced the Government will set up a Trade and Agriculture Commission to explore ways to protect food production standards, just three weeks after Farming Minister Victoria Prentis rejected the

In an online timed auction hosted by Farmers Marts (R.G. Jones), Dolgellau, sheep dogs sold to a top price of 18,525, which when including the buyer’s premium, amounts to 19,451.

With more than one million people backing food standards by signing the NFU petition to protect them in law, we may yet force the Government’s hand on this issue, says Tim Farron, agriculture spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.

In Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, the Tories are preparing to sacrifice farmers on the Brexit altar by trying to prevent the Scottish Government from maintaining EU standards, says John Finnie, Green MSP for the Highlands and Islands.

Defra’s public money for public goods scheme could be open to challenge from other countries at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to two industry experts.

I have absolutely no objection to high animal welfare standards, but selling them as a magical business opportunity for UK farmers after Brexit is beyond laughable, says Norman Bagley, head of policy at the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS).