Agri-Business
FUW to consult extensively on Welsh Government's Sustainable Farming Scheme
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) is planning to hold meetings during the summer and into the autumn to discuss...
Agri Politics
Agri-Business
New Holstein UK president announced
Welsh Master Breeder Bryan Thomas has been named as Holstein UK’s new president at the society’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday,...
Agri Politics
Hunt statement on 'relief programme' is a 'recognition of devastation'
The comments from Jeremy Hunt – where he vowed to introduce a “relief programme” for agriculture in the case of...
Agri Politics
At a crossroads: Batters urges leadership candidates to back British farming
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is urging all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to delivering a positive future for...
Agri-Business
Welsh farming unions welcome ‘Brexit and Our Land’ statement
Farmers’ unions in Wales have given a “cautious welcome” to the Welsh Government’s review of responses to the ‘Brexit and...
Agri-Business
US state visit raises fears of hasty trade deal
As US president Donald Trump begins his UK state visit, farm lobby bodies NFU Cymru and the Tenant Farmers’ Association...
Agri-Business
UK farming unions urge new MEPs to engage with farming communities
Four of the main UK farming union presidents are calling on the UK’s new MEPs to listen to the views...
Agri-Business
New MEPs must use 'skill and diplomacy' to avoid a No-Deal Brexit
The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) is urging politicians from across the political spectrum to avoid knee-jerk reactions to the outcome...
Agri-Business
Committee puts pressure on supermarkets' supplier payment practices
The chairman of the UK Parliament’s Business Committee has piled pressure on some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets over their...
Agri Politics
May departure: Farming's reaction to PM's resignation
The UK’s farming bodies have warned May’s resignation means yet more uncertainty and a return to the possibility of a...
Agri Politics
FUW urges against Brexit protest votes in EU election
The Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW) has warned that ‘protest votes’ in Thursday’s EU election in favour of hard-line Brexit...
Agri Politics
Work on UK frameworks and funding are still essential, FUW tells new Defra Minister
On his first visit to Wales, the UK’s new Minister for Agriculture was warned that work on a UK framework...
Agri Politics
UK granted October extension to Brexit
The UK has been granted another extension to Article 50, again pushing out the date at which it is due...
Agri-Business
UK unions reach out to European farmers on Brexit
UK farming unions are reaching out to their counterparts on the continent to seek support in avoiding a ‘no-deal’ Brexit....
Agri Politics
Politicians in line of fire at UFU annual dinner
Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) president Ivor Ferguson has derided Northern Ireland’s politicians for allowing the Stormont Executive and Assembly to...
Schemes
CLA: 'We should be wary of normalising bridging payments'
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as welcomed the announcement that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will begin making...
Agri Politics
UK formally requests second Brexit extension to June 30
Prime Minister Theresa May has today, Friday, April 5, sent a letter to President of the European Council Donald Tusk,...
Agri Politics
Parliament to force prime minister to request further Brexit extension
The parliament has voted by a majority of just one solitary vote to force the prime minister, Theresa May, to...
