Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is drawing up plans for extra culling areas for badgers to help eradicate bovine TB. Two trial culls beginning next week will see around 5,000 badgers killed. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Paterson warns it will take "20-25 years of hard culling" to reduce the incidence of bov...
Britain's farming sector could struggle to find seasonal labour after controls on Bul...
The Government has "gone silent" over the horsemeat scandal, according to the shadow ...
The European Union will vote today on a ban on pesticides linked to the declining bee...
British farms should be free to grow genetically modified crops, the Government's chi...
by Richard Welbirg Britain's farming sector could struggle to find seasonal labour after controls on Bulgarian and Romanian migrants are lifted, a new report has ...
Unite press release 'Pay and homes' threat to agricultural workers in October Ministers have a moral duty to inform the 150,000 agricultural workers in England...
George Freeman said the Government wanted to see field trials before accepting a link between neonicotinoid fertilisers and declining bee numbers. “What we were c...
Environmental Audit Committee press release EU vote on neonicotinoids: reaction by Chair of Environmental Audit Committee Joan Walley When the European Commissi...
Friends of the Earth press release The decision today to introduce EU-wide restrictions on neonicotinoid insecticides linked to bee decline is a significant victo...
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