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UK agriculture

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    The State of Britain
    On top of extreme weather, farmers are starved of clear policy direction Premium content

    Plus, Keir Starmer launches NHS reform programme

    Groundswell agriculture festival in Hertfordshire
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    News in-depth
    Bioethanol plant owner says US-UK trade deal will force closure without government help

    ABF Sugar, which owns the Vivergo plant in Saltend, Hull has given ministers two weeks to come up with a rescue package

    The Vivergo Chemical Plant in Hull
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    UK public policy
    UK doing physical checks on just 5% of imported animals, watchdog says

    National Audit Office calls for ministers to take ‘urgent’ action to combat biosecurity threat

    A close-up of cows in a field
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    John Gapper
    The ‘megafarm’ that is part of the UK’s agricultural future

    A Norfolk campaign against Cranswick’s plans to raise more chickens and pigs may undermine food security

    Chickens at Cranswick’s Larling Farm in Quidenham, Norfolk
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Brexit
    UK and EU agree post-Brexit reset at showpiece summit

    Starmer accused of ‘surrender’ by the Tories after finalising new arrangements on fisheries and agriculture

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president António Costa
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Fishing industry urges Starmer to ‘hold nerve’ in UK-EU pact talks

    EU negotiators say Britain must agree to a long-term fisheries deal

    A fisherman sorts a box of line caught pollock in Newlyn harbour in the UK
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK trade
    US targets Britain’s pork, poultry and seafood markets

    Agricultural sectors are ‘front of the line’ in ongoing trade talks, says Trump’s agriculture secretary

    Pigs crowded together in a pen on a farm
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    UK fishing
    UK partially broke rules by closing waters to EU sand eel fishing, says tribunal

    Legal wrangle over access is one of most prominent irritants in post-Brexit relations between London and Brussels

    The vessel is surrounded by gannets
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Brexit
    Brussels demands UK fishing rights in return for food standards deal

    Issue is a remaining hurdle in ‘reset’ talks ahead of summit later this month

    Fishermen empty a net filled with fish into a metal container on the deck
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    End ‘false choice’ between farming and environment, says Natural England chair

    Conservation agency seeks to reconcile conflicting demands for food production and development

    Tony Juniper
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Brexit
    Officials hopeful Brussels summit will pave way to UK-EU defence pact

    Row over fish quotas to arise at post-Brexit reset talks on May 19

    A fisherman sorts through the mackerel catch on board a trawler off the coast of Ouistreham, northwestern France
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Medical science
    UK detects bird flu in sheep for the first time

    Authorities play down risks to livestock but urge precautions to avoid mass outbreaks seen in US

    A close-up image of a sheep’s face
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    European dairy boss says uncertainty about green rules holding back investment

    Chief executive of Arla blames drop in milk production on lack of clarity about EU regulation

    Calves are fed at Newlands farm in Bozeat, England which is part of Arla
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    UK Treasury rejects farmers’ inheritance tax compromise

    Government will not back down on reforms outlined in Budget, industry told during meeting with officials

    A farmers’ protest causes gridlock in central London last week
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    UK politics
    UK lacks coherent rural policy, says environment committee chair

    Alistair Carmichael calls on government to engage with ‘disaffected’ communities as farmers set for latest protest

    Alistair Carmichael
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Tenth of England’s farmland must be rewilded to hit climate targets, ministers estimate

    Under proposed ‘land use framework’, 760,000 hectares would need to be converted to woodland or heath by 2050

    A cutting machine harvests spinach on farmland near Dorchester, Dorset
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Supermarkets back UK farmers in their fight against inheritance tax changes

    Tesco and Lidl express concern about the impact of Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed reforms

    Tractors drive through Trafalgar Square as farmers stage a protest against inheritance tax in Westminster
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK politics
    UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings

    Environment secretary tells FT that moves to adopt technology are ‘the right thing to do’

    A scientist holding tweezers and a research plant in a growth chamber
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    UK politics
    UK delays gene editing plans in push for Brexit reset

    Brussels warns that current British plans not compatible with agreement to cut border checks

    A conceptual illustration of genome editing using Crispr
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Have England’s winemakers lost their sparkle?

    Wine estates are struggling to attract buyers while dealing with a poor 2024 harvest

    Chardonnay grapes are harvested for Hattingley Valley
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    John Gapper
    James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries

    The UK’s largest commercial farmer is trying to create a berry brand against intense global competition

    Dan Stockhill programming the robot picking arm machines
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Farmers gather in Whitehall in latest protest against UK Budget tax changes

    Tractors park up in main London thoroughfare in rally opposing government inheritance tax reforms

    Tractors are driven through Westminster on Wednesday
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The politics of land is fundamental to the UK

    Farming row reveals the absence of any strategic thinking about how we use it

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a tractor surrounded by fields and hedgerows with price tags on them
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Jo Ellison
    Confessions of a farmer’s daughter

    I know the benefits of agricultural relief

    A group of people with a love British farming sign stand in front of a yellow tractor
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Big Question
    The Big Question: Should farmers have to pay inheritance tax?

    The government says the levy targets landowners seeking to shelter wealth, but food producers say it will hit them hard

    FT montage of a tractor and ‘No farmers, No food’ protest banners with a large question mark between them
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