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The Government’s Trade Bill has left MPs with less power to scrutinise trade deals and protect farmers than UK MEPs had in the EU, says Tim Farron, agriculture spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.

New Trade and Agriculture Commission member Shanker Singham has not always had the best reputation in the farming community. Abi Kay speaks to him to find out how he thinks UK farmers can be protected in a post-Brexit world.

During my early-teen growth spurt I had skinny, matchstick legs and gigantic size-12 feet which I could barely control. This made me hopeless at football – this was in the1980s and Peter Crouch had not surfaced yet.

Irish farmers could be entitled to payments in the region of €100 (£90) per head of cattle slaughtered due to Brexit and Covid-19 disruption.

The US beef industry has been at the centre of discussion on a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal. In the first of a four-part series examining the US beef industry and markets, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Guardian’s sister company Urner Barry looks at the structure of the industry from the ranch to the packing plant.

The UK Government either does not appreciate, or care, about what Brexit is about to bring for farmers, says Deidre Brock, SNP Westminster spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

This Government’s sugar plans, whether changing the tariff regime or refusing to reconsider the neonics ban for beet, prove no Minister is backing British farming, says Leicestershire arable and beef farmer Joe Stanley.

Tight lamb supply has brought higher prices, but will prices sink with a no-deal Brexit? Hannah Binns and Ewan Pate report.

A no-deal Brexit at the end of this year could lead to the premature slaughter of ‘millions of lambs’, a peer has warned, as pressure on the Government to protect agriculture ramped up.

Highly successful British poultry breeding companies are considering relocating if there is significant disruption at the UK-EU border when the Brexit transition period comes to an end in December.