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Farmers should not be having to fight the Government for solutions to the ongoing labour crisis and increasing food inflation, according to NFU president Minette Batters.

Supply shortages in new and second-hand quad bikes have fuelled a spike in thefts, with criminals more slick, determined and prolific than before.

Farmers should not be having to fight the Government for solutions to the ongoing labour crisis and increasing food inflation, according to NFU president Minette Batters.

British Meat Processors Association chief executive Nick Allen was ‘mortified’ at a bank chief’s philosophy that price inflations at consumer level were unacceptable. 

Supply shortages in new and second-hand quad bikes have fuelled a spike in thefts, with criminals more ‘slick, determined and prolific’ than before. 

An alliance of environmental groups has launched a three-point attack on the Government, following the publication of its latest air pollution figures.

Popular Countryside Stewardship option AB15 two-year sown legume fallow saw a 9 per cent increase in payment rate this year, guaranteeing growers £569/hectare/year for the five year agreement.

Farmers have called it ’the worst harvest season in living memory’

Nick Grayson, a mixed tenant farmer in Rotherham and vice chair of the Future Farmers of Yorkshire, a group supported by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.

A year on from the overwhelming vote to end the statutory AHDB potato levy, Cedric Porter speaks to the group looking to set up a new representative group for the sector