food

Met Office says 10 English counties experienced wettest September on record

Council says case should serve as an animal welfare warning to farming community

Defra says development of drought and disease resistant crops will help reduce costs for farmers

The CLA said more than 27,000 farm businesses could be impacted by an inheritance tax reduction, potentially leading to 190,000 people out of work

FSA charges are currently discounted according to the number of hours involved so that smaller abattoir businesses, which require fewer hours regulation, receive a greater discount

The chair of Labour's Climate and Environment Forum Baroness Young said she hoped the ‘multi-functional' land use framework would be operationally ‘sustainable'

Tenant Farmers Association chief executive George Dunn said it was a ‘huge frustration' that after years of ‘financial mismanagement' by Peterborough City Council it has decided to get rid of a ‘significant area' of its farms estate

NFU says unfair to just blame growers when factors such as weather and climate change play a role

Deputy First Minister says schemes will help build on-farm resilience for future generations

'The reality is that the public and other businesses do not know what we do. And to be honest, why should they?'