Politics

Tenant Farmers Association has urged RPA and Defra to better financially support common and upland farmers who are currently frozen out of new agreements or stuck in existing ones

Protest organiser says Labour squandered the opportunity to reset its relationship with the rural community

Defra joins Sir David Attenborough in supporting The Wildlife Trusts bid to buy the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland

This week from the Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said: "Today the phrase ‘food security is national security' feels nothing but a hollow promise"

An arable farmer from Doncaster said the lack of mention of farming in the budget showed where this government's priorities lie.

The Farming Minister, Stephen Morgan said: “All the decisions around how the SFI scheme would run this year were made before my appointment into the department"

The tariff reduction will come into effect on November 26 2026

Katie Talbot, consultant at international law company Charles Russell Speechlys, considers how Labour tax strategies will impact the future of farming

Scottish Land & Estates have called for decisions on new infrastructure to consider local needs, public benefit, cost and impacts on existing land uses