The Government has defended its plans for controlling the badger population ahead of two trial culls getting underway tomorrow. Farming Minister David Heath stressed that the culls were needed to help restrict the spread of bovine TB, while DEFRA’s chief vet Nigel Gibbens said the risk of the infection reaching humans and...
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is drawing up plans for extra culling areas for b...
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...
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee press release During a parliamentary debate scheduled for Thursday 13 June, MPs on the Environment, Food and R...
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development press release Parliamentarians of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food ...
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Owen Paterson Written Ministerial Statement I would like to announce to the House that my Righ...
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...
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