Andrew Meredith

6 days ago | fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith

There is always pleasure to be taken in a landlord-tenant relationship where there is goodwill on both sides and a desire to collaborate. As journalists, too often the stories we hear are when there’s been a breach of trust, a war of words and the lawyers have got involved.

1 week ago | fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith

Welcome back to another edition of This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, the markets (opens as PDF). You might want to lower your sunglasses in shock for this one – there’s finally been a drop in the beef price – but only by 0.6p/kg for deadweight steers. Lambs also dropped back under the £7/kg mark, widening the gap on year-earlier levels, and wheat shed another £2/t to £163.50/t – a very poor price indeed.

2 weeks ago | fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith

© Keir Starmer © PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo What a shame for Sir Keir Starmer. Try as he might to ignore farming, it keeps getting shoved further up the pescatarian prime minister’s agenda. Now agriculture is a component of what is likely to be one of the defining issues of his first term – whether to pursue a closer trading relationship with the EU or the US. This appears to be a proper either-or choice.

1 month ago | fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith

“You can have as many people and as much money as you want, as long as we don’t run out of food,” read the text message that flashed up on the mobile phone of Minette Batters. Not the mandate she was given from Steve Reed as she starts her new job as Defra’s consultant on farm profitability, but the message from a panicking minister to the then NFU president in the early days of Covid.

1 month ago | fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith

Kaleb Cooper (left) and Jeremy Clarkson © Freuds Welcome back to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, here’s your markets (opens as PDF) with another slippage for old season lambs. Prices are well behind the extreme highs of last year when Easter and Ramadan overlapped. Now, on with the show.