Sean Rickard

MPs warn of import threats to UK agrifood sector

30th October 2020 | Agricultural Policy & Regulation, Brexit

A webinar featuring national agriculture spokesmen this week concluded that current government policy threatens to significantly downgrade UK agriculture as we know it. The webinar was organised by the Save British Farming movement. Defra minister George Eustice was...

Rickard spells out cost of No-Deal for farming

23rd August 2019 | Agricultural Policy & Regulation, Brexit, Farm Business

A new campaign, Farmers for a Peoples Vote was launched last week to with a remit to “represent the interests of UK farmers and the agricultural sector against the risks of Brexit, particularly a disastrous no-deal”. The opening press conference was chaired by Guto...