From the editor: By joining the dots between food security, public investment and the national growth agenda the sector will gain confidence and thrive

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley

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From the editor: By joining the dots between food security, public investment and the national growth agenda the sector will gain confidence and thrive

What Sir Keir Starmer's new Government may lack in farming knowledge and expertise, it can make up for in good old-fashioned joined-up thinking. At least that is the hope. Steve Reed, the Streatham and...

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