Minette Batters news, comment and analysis – Page 10
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NewsMedia Bites 22 Aug: Morrisons, Brexit Rationing, Tesco
’Foreign vultures’ could swoop on Morrisons after a share price slump and a fall in the pound left it vulnerable to a takeover
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Comment & OpinionDefending the meat industry: the right people must deliver the right message
Invoking the ‘vegan lobby’ and shouting down critics isn’t the right way to defend the meat sector
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Analysis & FeaturesCan the meat industry fight back against latest attacks?
Some in the sector believe the time has come to mount a more robust defence
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Comment & OpinionIPCC report: how UK meat producers can cut their carbon footprint
Offshoring the carbon problem of meat production is a bad idea, says Professor Chris Elliott
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NewsIPCC climate change report ‘overly simplistic’, say farming groups
They say it is not right that the UK has been conflated with less sustainable production systems abroad
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NewsDefra secretary Villiers urged to reassure food sector over Brexit
Industry leaders have called on Villiers to offer ’urgent reassurances’ on future trade relationships, environmental and animal welfare standards
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NewsNew prime minister Boris Johnson urged to abandon no-deal threat
Johnson was elected to lead the Conservative Party today by 92,153 votes to 46,656 over his rival Jeremy Hunt
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Comment & OpinionNo-deal disaster: let’s hope Johnson and Hunt are bluffing
Both Tory leadership contenders have said they would back a no-deal Brexit if necessary
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Analysis & FeaturesWill ‘trailblazing’ food sector review succeed where others failed?
Henry Dimbleby’s review has a broad remit. But will it survive Brexit, and the passage of time?
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Comment & OpinionDefra’s latest food sector review may be Gove’s last chance to deliver
Michael Gove has in the past been taken to task for ‘taking the F out of Defra’
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NewsHenry Dimbleby to lead Defra food sector review
The Leon co-founder’s review will form part of work for a new National Food Strategy for England
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NewsFood and farming bodies hit out after migration committee 'ignores' sector
A new report into ’shortage occupations’, where vacancies need to be filled by non-UK workers, had omited the sector, warned the NFU
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NewsBrexit uncertainty slows UK exports of barley
It comes as Theresa May secured a Brexit extension of 31 October from the EU
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NewsSir David Naish: tributes paid to former NFU president
Through his tenure as NFU president, Naish also became president of pan-EU farmer representative body COPA
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NewsFood and farming leaders slam 'disgraceful' tariffs decision
The government today published the long-awaited details of the UK’s new tariff schedule that would apply in the event of a no-deal
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NewsRobert Goodwill appointed farming minister by Defra
The MP for Scarborough and Whitby is a former immigration minister
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Analysis & FeaturesNFU Conference 2019: what's in store for British farming?
Here is our round-up of key issues the conference thrashed out
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NewsMeat exports outside EU may not be accepted in no-deal Brexit, warns NFU
Speaking at today’s NFU conference, Minette Batters warned meat exports set to leave the UK next week may not be accepted at their destination
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NewsMedia Bites 4 Feb: Brexit stockpiling, Patisserie Valerie, Ocado
British factories stockpiled goods in January at the fastest rate in 30 years, as they count down towards a potentially chaotic Brexit
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NewsCrops already suffering from scant labour, warns NFU
Farmers and growers are now facing further uncertainty after the Commons voted down Theresa May’s Brexit deal last night