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Young farmers have been ‘nothing short of brilliant’ throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, National Federation of Young Farmers’ Club (NFYFC) chairman, Dewi Parry has said.

Welsh Government’s current future agriculture policy plans do not focus enough on food security. Ministers need to remedy this as a Christmas gift to farmers, says Janet Finch-Saunders MS, Welsh Tory Shadow Rural Affairs Minister.

Like politicians, the general public have short memories, and however strongly they felt last year about ‘getting Brexit done’, realities that hit them in the pocket will lead to far more unrest than being sick of Brexit headlines, says FUW’s head of policy Dr Nick Fenwick.

An image of a packet of carrots with British branding labelled as grown in Spain has caused a storm on social media, as farmers and consumers demanded answers from Tesco.

January 2021 Arable Farming Issue

A last minute Brexit deal meaning trade with the EU can continue with zero tariffs and quotas has brought some comfort to British farmers but there are still big concerns over seed potato exports.

Spring bean varieties LG Viper, LG Sphinx and Allison have joined winter bean Norton on the PGRO’s 2021 Descriptive List.

A recent survey of food and drink manufacturers has found 43 per cent of those currently supplying Northern Ireland are planning not to do so in the first three months after the end of the Brexit transition period.

Keynote speaker at Agri-TechE’s REAP 2020 conference, Prof David Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington and author of ‘Growing a Revolution’, has a global view of soil health.