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At the Farmers Weekly Transition Live Event, Environment Secretary Steve Barclay gave a speech outlining the support available from government for farmers

• Updated: 9 May 2024

Future Winemakers’ Scheme will help domestic wine sector to continue its success

• Updated: 16 April 2024

Fund will support farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their land due to flooding earlier this year with grants of between £500 and £25,000

• Updated: 11 April 2024

The government has published its response to the Independent Review of Protected Site Management on Dartmoor.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

Environment Secretary launches proposals to make food labelling clearer and fairer, delivering on commitment to back British farming

• Updated: 12 March 2024

Environment Agency warns poor crop-management could increase region's flooding and pollution

• Updated: 28 February 2024

Alan Lovell, Chair of the Environment Agency delivers speech at 2024 NFU Conference.

• Updated: 20 February 2024

On the eve of New Year reforms for the wine industry, Environment Secretary Steve Barclay welcomes the scrapping of outdated rules inherited from the EU.

• Updated: 31 December 2023

Environment Secretary invites people to raise a glass to UK farmers and food producers this Christmas.

• Updated: 23 December 2023

The UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, spoke on a number of issues at the WTO General Council (17-19 December 2023).

• Updated: 20 December 2023

The Review delivers on a key commitment made at the Farm to Fork Summit and will support farmers and growers to receive a fair price for their products.

• Updated: 14 December 2023

Environment Secretary's speech at the Country Land and Business Association's rural business conference on 30th November 2023.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

Steve Barclay pledges to champion British agriculture in first speech to farmers, with a focus on innovation and automation to boost productivity.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

Sixth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 26 September 2023

• Updated: 21 November 2023

The UK’s agri-food attachés were welcomed to 10 Downing Street this morning, marking the start of a week meeting ministers and the nation’s food producers

• Updated: 20 November 2023

This Call for Evidence will explore concerns about poor practice in the tenant farming sector and examine the role of industry and government in addressing them.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

New review set to promote fairness, transparency and accountability across the egg supply chain, delivering on key commitments from the Farm to Fork Summit.

• Updated: 31 October 2023

British cooked poultry meat will soon reach Japanese tables thanks to a new market access deal that will benefit UK farmers, meat processers and exporters.

• Updated: 27 October 2023

The project “Upscaling innovative ‘planting-baskets’ to restore landscape diversity, and enhance climate-resilient livelihoods” is a Darwin Initiative Innovation Project, funded through the UK government’s Biodiversity Chall…

• Updated: 27 October 2023

Defra has committed to working with industry to reduce methane emissions in livestock through the use of methane-suppressing feed products

• Updated: 26 October 2023