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With Covid-19 magnifying the strategic importance of domestic food production following major supply chain disruption, the National Beef Association (NBA) has warned Government must take food security ‘seriously’.

There can be few practices on the farm which can be changed with so little investment, and to such great effect, than age at first calving. Still, the UK’s age at first calving remains stubbornly fixed at an average 28 months, despite the well-promoted benefits of calving at two years.

There are signs the global dairy industry is stabilising following the coronavirus thunderbolt which hit it in March.

Plaid Cymru has launched a new campaign, ‘I’m Buying Local’, to promote Welsh food and boost farmers’ incomes.

Stilton sales are down 30 per cent since the start of the coronavirus crisis as shoppers opt for bulk buying of hard cheeses while restaurant demand has collapsed.

Llyr Gruffydd, North Wales MS and Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Rural Affairs Minister, explains why the party is launching a new campaign to promote Welsh food.

Firstly, I would like to start by acknowledging the fantastic job Christine Ryder has done writing this column for the past five years. She is truly a hard act to follow.

Prime minister Boris Johnson intervened twice to stop the Derbyshire badger cull going ahead, court documents have revealed.

Dairy Farmer commentator Christopher Murley tells us about his Jersey herd in far flung Cornwall.

There is much good in the Agriculture Bill, but its failure to protect farmers from low standard imports is very serious, says Daniel Zeichner, Labour’s Shadow Farming Minister.