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Defra Secretary George Eustice has said there is ‘no scientific justification whatsoever’ for the EU’s ban on UK seed potato exports.

UK and EU diplomats finally agreed a trade deal at the end of 2020, with negotiations going right to the wire. Abi Kay explores what it means for individual farming sectors.

With 2020 now drawing to a close, Abi Kay lists the key political dates farmers should keep an eye on in 2021.

Leave-voting farmers felt EU control over their business dealings threatened their very sense of self, a new study has found.

There were many unpredictable and unprecedented events in 2020, but what does 2021 have in store for farmers? Sustain’s head of sustainable farming, Vicki Hird, explores what could be on the horizon.

Farming Minister Victoria Prentis has said the UK Levelling Up Fund and the Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) will take into account the specific needs of rural communities.

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.

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.

Four years on from the EU referendum, Abi Kay takes a look at the Brexit promises made to farmers, and whether they are being realised.