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NFU Cymru has accused Welsh Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters of pushing a ‘simplistic’ message on meat consumption, after he urged people to eat less but local to tackle climate change.

NFU Cymru has accused Welsh Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters of pushing a simplistic message on meat consumption, after he urged people to eat less but local to tackle climate change.

With the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, First Milk bosses set out how the co-operative was looking to be part of the solution. Hannah Binns reports. 

A farmer from Somerset has been fined £11,000 for polluting a watercourse with slurry in three separate incidents for the second time in five years.

Farming must not be seen as the ’scapegoat’ for methane emissions, farming chiefs have warned.

As world leaders gathered in Glasgow this week for the COP26 climate summit, the irony of their collective carbon footprint was lost on no one.

It is easy for livestock farmers to become depressed about the apparent ascendancy of the vegan lobby but according to one expert there is a positive story to tell about meat.

Farm groups have urged Ministers not to put UK producers at a competitive disadvantage, after trade partner Australia refused to sign up to a global pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent over the next nine years.

Farming union leaders have been attending the COP26 event in Glasgow

Pig industry figures welcomed news from a BBC reporter that labels on food served at the event in Glasgow showed a bacon roll had a lower carbon count than a plant-based croissant