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Leader targets traditionally Tory voters in ‘persuasive and coherent’ address at NFU conference about value of sector and its challengesUK politics live – latest news updatesSir Keir Starmer has told Britain’s farmers that rural communities are “in his…
Farming groups say allowing high-carbon meat to enter UK could undermine domestic beef sector and harm environmentMexican beef could hit UK supermarket shelves as the farming minister confirmed that the high-carbon meat could be imported under a new t…
RCN suspends 48-hour strike in England planned for March with health secretary to meet union leaders. This live blog is now closedNurses in England pause strike action to enter ‘intensive’ pay talksMinette Batters, president of the National Farmers’ Un…
Farmers’ union president Minette Batters to say ‘volatility, uncertainty and instability are greatest risks to farm businesses’“The clock is ticking” to support Britain’s farmers battered by a storm of rising costs, labour shortages, bird flu and post-…
Exclusive: In address to NFU conference on Tuesday, Labour leader will make his pitch to the rural communityKeir Starmer will promise farmers a closer trading relationship with the EU and to protect high British food standards, as he says the Conservat…
Authorities have blamed the growing of coca – the base ingredient of cocaine – for clearcutting, but a recent study shows otherwiseCattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the last four decades, a new study …
In Grasse, droughts, heatwaves, and excessive rainfall have made growing flowers increasingly difficultWhen heatwaves used to hit the French town of Grasse, the perfume capital of the world, townspeople didn’t water their flowers. Instead, they marched…
Minette Batters accuses ministers of ‘dereliction of duty’ in failing to ensure safety of agricultural importsBritain is in danger of a “disastrous” food scandal, owing to lax post-Brexit border controls on agricultural imports, the leader of the UK’s…
Environment secretary tells farming conference in Washington she ‘won’t be going all vegan or vegetarian’UK politics live – latest news updatesThe UK environment secretary has said she would not go vegetarian or vegan, as she wooed the US farming estab…
Scientists hope emerging research into new types of animal feeds will make aquaculture more sustainableMost of the environmental effects of farmed chicken and salmon arise from the food the animals are reared on, new research suggests.Animal feed given…