Legislation

Industry leaders have hit back after Defra Secretary George Eustice suggested concerns about the future of the uplands were ‘unjustified’.

Industry leaders have hit back after Defra Secretary George Eustice suggested concerns about the future of the uplands were unjustified.

Rural groups have branded the Government’s new levelling up agenda a ’betrayal’, following the launch of the official plans last week

Details about Defra’s long-awaited plans to support English farmers who want to retire have been set out by the department today (February 8).

Northern Ireland’s Agriculture Minister, Edwin Poots, has vowed to seek an exemption for agriculture from the country’s planned net zero by 2050 target.

Expanding the global land area for conservation, a key approach to protecting biodiversity, could have an adverse impact on human health and food security in some parts of the world, according to new research.

Proponents of a large-scale move to organic farming in the UK have been issued with a warning as new research showed an EU switch is set to slash crop yields.

Industry has slammed ‘biased’ research which claims ending animal agriculture and planting trees on the empty fields is the ‘best and most immediate chance’ to slow climate change.

Industry has slammed biased research which claims ending animal agriculture and planting trees on the empty fields is the best and most immediate chance to slow climate change.

Efforts to push lab grown meat have been described as seriously misplaced, after new research showed almost half of adults (43 per cent) are unwilling to eat it.