Agri Policy & Regulation
Agroecology to solve climate change?
The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission has launched a report into how less intensive systems of agriculture can meet the challenge of feeding a growing population while mitigating climate change and increasing biodiversity. The report builds on its 2019 report...
Christine Tacon to chair Red Tractor Assurance
Christine Tacon CBE is the new chair of Assured Food Standards, the not-for-profit company owned by the farming unions, AHDB, Dairy UK and the British Retail Consortium, that operates the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. She replaces Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe who resigned...
New look for nabim and UK wheat Groups
The flour millers’ trade body nabim - The National Association of British & Irish Millers – has rebranded itself as UK Flour Millers in a move it says is driven by the UK’s departure from the EU, domestic devolution and the Covid pandemic. The change, the first since...
Red Tractor consults on future assurance standards
Assured Food Standards has launched a consultation over the future shape of its Red Tractor farm assurance standards across the scheme’s six sectors - beef and lamb; combinable crops and sugar beet; dairy; fresh produce; pigs; and poultry. The proposed changes have...
Chair for new UK environmental body
Dame Glenys Stacey is the preferred candidate to chair the new independent Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), says Defra secretary of state George Eustice. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the EFRA and Environmental Audit select committees. The...
Defra launches post-EU consultation on gene-editing
Defra minister George Eustice used his virtual Oxford Farming Conference slot this week to launch a consultation into gene editing technologies for livestock and crop species in England, a move welcomed by industry bodies. But it was clear from the conference platform...