Farming

The way in which British farmers receive government help was designed by Michael Gove – and it is a complete mess

Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable

Europe is burning, food insecurity is growing and Trump and Farage are still shouting about ‘Net Stupid Zero’

The BSE crisis - and Europe’s response - set in train many of the arguments that resurfaced in the referendum 20 years later

In Singapore, the land on which houses are built is so expensive it’s worth many times more than the houses themselves. That makes farming next to impossible. So where do you get your food?

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

Reform’s leader joined the tractor protests but backs a US trade deal that would harm UK agriculture

The industry is split about Reform’s leader appearing at their rallies against inheritance tax

The mercurial midfielder-turned ranting conspiracy theorist has now weighed in on inheritance tax changes

Agri-food imports and exports have plummeted, and farmers are increasingly concerned

Our annual round-up of the people Britain could do without has stirred up some strong views

The inheritance tax debate is a little more nuanced than you will read on social media

The Reform leader is marching for farmers but it's his Brexit which has caused them most harm

These protests have picked the wrong cause. Brexit is what they should be angriest about

There is no economic justification for all farmers passing their estates on to their children tax-free

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

In post-Brexit Britain, money is tight and the future is scarily uncertain for the agriculture sector

The eye-catching tractor protests are justified from a stitched-up sector that mostly voted Leave

The PM’s performance at the NFU conference was pathetic even by his standards

Agriculture is in a crisis created by Brexit, and farmers are furious.. as Jacob Rees-Mogg found out

In 2022, Britain produced a billion fewer eggs than in 2019. The knock-on effects of that shortfall are huge

On the outskirts of the capital, Punjabi-Sikhs are being forced to work in brutal conditions

Industry hit with a blow as government halts trial of a system designed to limit paperwork

While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making

Our experience shows that this time, no deal really could be better than a bad deal

Yes, it’s a deal. But it’s a bad deal. Very very bad

New poll shows 79% think trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are bad

Just a tiny fraction of England’s farms have received payment under the government’s sustainable farming incentive

With a lack of foreign labour in Britain’s fields, crops are rotting and thousands of healthy pigs are being culled unnecessarily

At least 40,000 pigs have been culled and their meat wasted because Brexit has led to a lack of butchers to process them

Ian Blackford has kicked off parliamentary scrutiny of the government’s post-Brexit trade deal with Australia by asking the prime minister multiple questions on the subject at PMQs. The leader of the SNP used his questions to ask for more “details of the disastrous trade deal with Australia”. He said these details were “busy being celebrated in Canberra, but […]