Leaders in the food and drink sector urge swift government action on planning, EU realignment, and support for a more resilient UK food system
If he becomes the next PM, Mr Burnham said he was committed to creating a No.10 North
This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones
North West dairy farmer Andy Paton met Andy Burnham at an NFU roundtable back in 2022 and said he showed a willingness to 'listen to common sense'
The Countryside Alliance has criticised the Prime Minister and his Government for failing to 'renew the bond' of respect between the countryside and MPs
Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael says not only is the family farm tax an attack on the elderly but will stifle investment and reduce food security
Radmore Farm’s Ben Aveling has urged the Prime Minister to rethink plans for Inheritance Tax and said the countryside must remain in the hands of family farmers, not ‘massive corporations’
The Prime Minister, who was seen not wearing the NFU’s Back British Farming Day celebratory wheat sheaf badge, was asked whether Inheritance Tax would now be discussed
In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on Save British Farming's plans to host a 'vintage farming spectacle' in Whitehall on 29 April, to put Britain's food and farming crisis in the spotlight; Farmers' Union of Wales' warning a rushed US trade deal could see Welsh agricultural 'sold down the river' in the UK Government's pursuit of short-term trade concessions; and Farmers Guardian's brand-new video series ‘From Hill to Ring’
Barber's managing director, Giles Barber said whilst the 10% US tariff was ‘unhelpful' and 'disruptive' it was ‘significantly better' than the tariff imposition on other trading blocks, including the EU