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Speaking at the Pig and Poultry fair Red Tractor's head of operations, Philippa Wiltshire, stressed lessons were being learned, especially in areas important to farmers — ‘value, audit efficiency and transparency'

Following her appointment to the Co-op board, Christine Tacon has announced her intention to step down as Red Tractor Chair

Graham’s Family Dairy, Scotland’s largest independent dairy, has seen an increase in sales of cottage cheese equivalent to the weight of two million kilograms per year

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told tenant farmers last week that the scheme was a ‘victim of its own success' amid a rising demand for consumer and retailer assurance

National Pig Association chair Rob Mutimer said: "The bill for deforestation soya is a three figure increase on what market soya is at the moment"

The retail giant is the latest supermarket to create a Best of British section online

Polling commissioned by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission found 62 per cent of the British public wanted greater intervention to ensure farmers are treated fairly

The retailer has joined Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Aldi and Ocado in introducing a 'Buy British' section for customers online

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley (March 14)

The retailer joins Aldi and Morrisons as the latest supermarket to sign up to the food campaign