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Recent reviews, guidance and industry commentary all point in the same direction for agricultural tenancies: towards longer-term arrangements. The reasoning is clear. Tenant farmers need enough certainty to invest in holdings, diversify their businesses and plan for the future.
Recent enforcement action against a Welsh farming business is a useful reminder that environmental designations can carry significant legal and financial risk when considering land to purchase, or how you farm your existing land.
Jessica Burt, food regulatory lawyer at Mills & Reeve, looked at the next steps for obesity policy in the England at Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum Policy Conference that was held on 15 May.
It was recently widely reported that the UK Government is planning to legislate to enable ‘dynamic alignment’ with EU law with an SPS agreement about food to be the first example. What is now clear is this is expected to be a template for other markets.
The ASA’s first rulings under the new less healthy food advertising restrictions have now been published, offering early guidance on how the rules will be applied.
The Renters' Rights Act 2025 was passed in October last year, with the most relevant changes, including those for landlords of agricultural workers, coming into force on 1 May 2026.
The Nutrient Profile Model (NPM) consultation was published 25 March 2026 and proposes businesses have just 12 months to apply the ‘new’ NPM (2018 model) for their advertising and promotion of products.
It is eye-opening to see the recent figures reported in Farmers Weekly which show that dog attacks on farm animals cost UK farmers an estimated £1.95 million in 2025, a 10% rise from the previous year.
In the recent case of John M Clapp v The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Defra was found to have wrongly designated land as falling within a NVZ, and therefore the restrictions placed on agricultural activities should not have been imposed.
The UK government is entering into a new strategic partnership with the EU to oversee the trade and movement of plants, animal products, feed and food. This arrangement is known as a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement. The call to the agri-food sector is to “start getting ready now”.
The Competition & Markets Authority (“CMA”) published new guidance on making environmental claims across supply chains.
We take a look at the Spring Statement 2026 and what this means for the food and agri sector.