farming
Brexit may have delayed the debate on cages, but now is an opportunity for the UK to be a leader in animal rights, writes Deborah Meaden.
Wild bees are our best pollinators, yet pesticides, pathogens and industrial farming are devastating their numbers. Is there a better way to work with them?
Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers are almost totally reliant on seasonal migrant workers. Having previously been inundated with applications from Romania and Bulgaria, labour agencies say interest dropped off, post-Brexit, in 2017 and 2018 as workers opt to go elsewhere in the EU.
The seasonal veg could be staying in the ground this year.
After tending to his cows all day, Pablo Pato sweeps the hay off the floor and transforms into a freestyle roller skater without leaving the cowshed, in the remote mountain village of Llanuces in northern Spain.
The weather has put 'particular stress on farming costs and yields', experts say.
'It has become a badge of identity.'
A bull was shot dead by police.
Food production could be impacted in the future, say experts.
I raised pigs for slaughter and it taught me the importance of knowing where your food comes from