Release the pigs!
It’s pannage time in the New Forest. But is the land more threatened by man or beast?
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Britain’s farmers will take Starmer down with them
There is a revolt in the countryside – and it is coming for the Government.
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Why do Brits neglect barley?
After all, we grow seven million tonnes of it a year.
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The farmers’ revolt against green politics
Across Europe and North America, neglected urban and rural citizens are aligning in a new class struggle.
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Steve Reed: “Farmers feel shafted by this government”
The shadow environment secretary on what voters want and how to make Labour the “party of the countryside”.
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How to fight a class war
The tractor convoy has replaced the picket line as the symbol of working-class revolt.
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In the rush to net zero, we can’t forget the role of farming
A new report sets out how to incentivise farmers to promote biodiversity.
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Why the Dutch are revolting
After over a decade in power, is Mark Rutte about to be brought down by a movement of angry farmers?
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Is Brexit to blame for the UK’s tomato shortage?
Bad weather and energy prices are at fault but the effects of Brexit, both direct and indirect, are also to…
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Minette Batters: “Food cannot be the poor relation to the environment”
Minette Batters, head of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), doubles down on food security in the face of green farm…
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Clarkson’s Farm is yet more proof that nimbys run the world
A planning system that says no at the slightest hint of opposition, and to hell with our economic decline, is…
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Sarah Langford Q&A: “Pay something attention and it rewards you a hundredfold”
The barrister-turned-farmer on Madonna, Mad Men and why success doesn’t equal happiness.
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Drought pulls Europe’s farmers to the front line of a drying world
Heatwaves and low rainfall are forcing farmers in rich nations to use methods usually suggested to those in East Africa.
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George Monbiot: “Agriculture is arguably the most destructive industry on Earth”
The campaigner and author on why we must break the stranglehold of traditional farmers to prevent environmental catastrophe.
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