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Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner will be probed about the early closure of SFI and Defra's communication with the industry on key changes to farming policy

A letter written by Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1917 has resurfaced online to reflect the national interest of growing food at home in a world filled with geopolitical uncertainty

Orkney and Shetland MP and chair of the Efra Committee Alistair Carmichael recently presented a Bill urging Parliament to address supply chain unfairness and the imbalance of power dynamics between farmers and supermarkets

Could Alistair Carmichael's legislation finally address food supply chain unfairness?

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on a letter sent by the Efra Committee chair, Alistair Carmichael to the Farming Minister calling on the Government to focus on five key areas to improve fairness and resilience in the food supply chain. Later today Mr Carmichael will be presenting his food supply chain fairness bill in Parliament. And the absence of rural crime in the Government's Crime and Policing Bill has been branded 'unacceptable' by a Liberal Democrat MP

The Government has pulled the rug out from under farmers across England, according to Alastair Carmichael

Mr Carmichael, chair of the Efra Committee, writes about the need to address the problem of low farm incomes, how his Food Supply Chain Fairness Bill could help shift the dial for farmers in getting a fair price for their produce, and the need to take on the supermarket giants and give back power to farmers

Orkney & Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael says Groceries Code Adjudicator has not done enough to protect food producers

Alistair Carmichael asked for clarification when IPAFFS , Defra's IT system import of products, animals, food and feed system was successfully updated and operating as intended to reflect the policy change made on January 10 in response to the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

Scottish MPs told James Murray, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, his Government needs to amend section 177 of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 to ensure Scottish tenant farmers are excluded from reforms to Agricultural Property Relief