Economist says while farmers coped with recent global upheaval, it would be 'very painful' to see a return to high input prices
"Sometimes we go without eating so our children can eat. Despite already working over 80 hours, seven days a week, I was told I would need to get another job. It is appalling"
Retailer unveils vegetable crop grown by robots and monitored by drones
"Politics has not worked for farmers in a very long time"
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'