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Government must ‘overrule nimbys’ on new reservoirs to combat drought, says infrastructure tsar

Call for UK ministers to act comes as environment secretary considers ‘national grid for water’

The Independent UK

Farmers call for Truss and Sunak to tackle ‘immoral’ water wastage

Tory leadership hopefuls urged to set out emergency plans as parts of UK face driest conditions on record

The Guardian - UK

UK facing drought in August following extreme heat

Hosepipe bans could be brought in and farmers restricted from irrigating crops

The Guardian - UK

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Crops being wasted on British farms despite food bank woes, industry boss says

Minette Batters said there was an ‘absolute crisis’, meaning food was being ploughed back into land on farms.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson shelves free school meals for up to a million kids in 'thin gruel' food plan

The Prime Minister faces fury over his Food Strategy White Paper tomorrow, after he ditched pleas from his food tsar Henry Dimbleby - including to let all kids on DWP Universal Credit claim free school meals

Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson faces rural fury over post-Brexit food strategy

Anger grows before West Country by-election as farmers say they will be left poorer and unable to compete with foreign producers

The Guardian - UK

Slashing food tariffs will not fix UK’s cost of living crisis, warns farmers’ union

NFU president responds to reports ministers are considering lowering import taxes to stem inflation

The Guardian - UK

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Ex-European Parliament president Lord Plumb dies aged 97

The former Tory politician was also president of the National Farmers Union in the 1970s.

The Independent UK

The three Fs: why UK farmers fear the soaring cost of fertiliser, feed and fuel

Price of key commodities have surged because of Covid and Brexit, and now the war in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Farmers warn of 'very, very serious situation' as crops slashed by up to 85%

Glass houses are being left empty, the price of chicken is up 50% in a year

Wales Online

Eustice defends farming policy amid accusations Government not focused on food

National Farmers’ Union president Minette Batters criticised ‘contradictory’ policies for the agricultural sector.

The Independent UK

Government accused of being focused on ‘anything other than food’ in countryside

National Farmers’ Union president Minette Batters criticised ‘contradictory’ policies for the agricultural sector.

The Independent UK

Tuesday briefing: West to unveil sanctions as Putin orders troops to Ukraine

Russian claim that troops will enter separatist areas on ‘peacekeeping duties’ is ‘nonsense’ says US … Farmers savage Brexit policies … and hedgehogs return

The Guardian - AU

‘Completely contradictory’: NFU leader attacks UK farming policy

Minette Batters says industry is in crisis because of government failures over staff shortages, Brexit red tape and cheap imports

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The Independent UK

40,000 pigs ‘culled and meat wasted’ due to industry crisis, farmers say

Around 200,000 pigs are also said to be backed up on farms because of a lack of skilled butchers to process them.

Wales Online

Pig farming in crisis, say National Farmers' Union as 40,000 healthy pigs are culled and dumped

40,000 healthy animals culled and meat thrown away

The Independent UK

Russia tensions reveal threat to UK food supplies, farming chief warns

Exclusive: Destabilisation in eastern Europe lays bare the UK’s lack of food-security planning

The Guardian - UK

Minette Batters: ‘I feared farmers would be used as a pawn in trade deals – and that’s what happened’

The NFU president has been dismayed by the government’s post-Brexit deals, but has vowed to fight on for British producers

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The Guardian - UK

NFU president: farmers are pawns in Brexit negotiations

Minette Batters decries trade deal with Australia and New Zealand

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