Liz Truss today vows to ‘unleash’ British farming to shore up food security with a pledge to slash red tape and extend a seasonal workers scheme.

Haulier Tariq Akram organised a rolling roadblock on the M180 between Doncaster in South Yorkshire and Grimsby in Lincolnshire during the morning rush hour.

Hundreds of farmers are planning to quit milk production in the next two years because they are being driven out of business by the rising cost of food production.

Oxfordshire council has become the first to ban meat and go for a fully vegan menu at meetings, despite widespread outcry from experts and local farmers, including Jeremy Clarkson (pictured).

The National Farming Union has concerns about Britain’s food security, warning changing the use of agricultural land will damage the UK’s self-sufficiency and lead to increased imports.

The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) last night called on Ministers to temporarily relax the rules so 15,000 extra workers can be brought to Britain on short-term visas to plug a meat production crisis.

One fourth-generation dairy farmer in central England who asked not to be named said he’s been forced to dump 40,000 litres of milk over the past two months after no one turned up to collect it.

Boris Johnson has said the mass slaughter of pigs has ‘not yet taken place’ but farmers wearing ‘save our bacon’ T-shirts who gathered to protest outside Tory Conference in Manchester say different.