Politics

Earlier this year Farmers Guardian partnered with Soil Ed, a campaign to get farming, food and nature embedded onto the national curriculum. Last week campaigners took the fight for rural education to London as the first roundtable discussion took place

Bridgwater MP Sir Ashley Fox said the money could have been better used to help farmers dredge rivers and alleviate pressure communities face with flooding

Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart says Labour’s proposals risk tearing apart the ‘very fabric of rural communities’

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’

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Katie Jones

Shadow Defra Secretary Victoria Atkins writes on Labour’s broken promises to farmers, how the Conservatives aim to win back rural communities at the next General Election and why the UK faces a food and farming emergency

The group is asking farmers to join campaign to get livestock sector included in eligible occupations list

MPs brand family farm tax ‘disgraceful’, saying it reflects Labour’s ‘deep disconnect’ from rural community

Grassroots farming groups will unite on November 24 for a day of peaceful protests