Green Highlands MSP prompts anger with destocking calls
Farmers Weekly Green Party Highlands and Islands MSP Ariane Burgess has prompted anger with a call for Scottish upland farmers to switch from livestock farming to tree planting and peatland restoration. The Greens are currently in a power-sharing agreement with the Scottish National Party in the Scottish parliament. See also: ‘Pitiful’ policy in Scotland is […]
Farmers Weekly convenes Meat: Our Expectations roundtable
Farmers Weekly Farming unions, food processors, retailers, consumer groups, crime experts and regulators came together this week to discuss Farmers Weekly’s campaign to stamp out misconduct in the meat sector. At the meeting, attended by several organisations, including the Food Standards Agency, British Retail Consortium and Which?, the four recommendations for change (see panel below) […]
Positive reaction to Rishi Sunak’s Food Summit talks
Farmers Weekly Participants at the government’s Food Summit have been left feeling positive by the announcements, but insist action must be taken now to ensure policies come to fruition. Prime minister Rishi Sunak invited delegates from food, farming and retail industries to 10 Downing Street on Tuesday (16 May) for a UK-wide food security summit. […]
Rishi Sunak unveils new support package for British farming
Farmers Weekly A new framework for future trade deals, additional support for horticulture, and significant investment in precision breeding technologies are among an eye-catching package of measures announced by the government ahead of the food security summit in Downing Street today (16 May). The so-called UK Farm to Fork Summit is being hosted by prime […]
Rishi Sunak open letter to British farmers on trade
Farmers Weekly A new framework for future trade deals, additional support for horticulture, and significant investment in precision breeding technologies are among an eye-catching package of measures announced by the government ahead of the food security summit in Downing Street today (16 May). The so-called UK Farm to Fork Summit is being hosted by prime […]
£12m project launched on best ways to produce cultured meat
Farmers Weekly A new framework for future trade deals, additional support for horticulture, and significant investment in precision breeding technologies are among an eye-catching package of measures announced by the government ahead of the food security summit in Downing Street today (16 May). The so-called UK Farm to Fork Summit is being hosted by prime […]
Opinion: All this ‘paper farming’ makes you boggle-eyed
Farmers Weekly One of Oliver Walston’s favourite jokes was about how the most common occupation-related medical condition among farmers was retinitis – otherwise known as “tunnel vision”. It was a typical Walston broadside in that it felt insulting but also made you think. Another eyesight condition farmers might be prone to is being “boggle-eyed”. I […]
Norfolk farmers highlight water security worries with Defra minister
Farmers Weekly Members of Prospect union working in the Civil Service, including for Natural England and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha), have staged a second day of strike action over pay, job losses and redundancy terms. This follows a previous strike on 15 March. In addition to the strike action, workers have been […]