The empty shelves and rationing of eggs and vegetables that was seen in recent months is likely to be repeated for many fresh British chicken products, according to experts at the BPC.

The Countryside Alliance warned that a new ‘plant-based’ international treaty signed by several councils in the UK that promotes taxes on meat and bans the expansion of farms is a threat to British agriculture.

Ministers are looking to force farmers to give herds additives to reduce gas from digestion in ‘compound feeds’. The suppressants could be introduced to herds from 2025.

Waitrose will hand £2.6million to its egg supply chain as it says it will not follow other supermarkets in rationing the shelled foodstuffs.

The use of the words sausage, bacon and steak to describe plant-based vegan imitations should be banned, say retail experts and farmers.

Widespread infection means Christmas shortages of turkey is a real possibility, so farmers are killing their birds early in order to prevent them catching the H5N1 virus and then freezing them.

Black farmers are taking the federal government to court after the Biden administration watered down a proposed $4 billion debt relief program aimed at helping people of color in the agriculture industry.

GEORDIE BURNETT-STUART: The public is as confused as it is misinformed by zealots blinded by self-important activism. But it’s not just a British problem.

Dozens of tractors lined both sides of the road as the cortege passed through the Aberdeenshire countryside on its way to Edinburgh.