We will break down barriers, improve skills, get more people into better-paying jobs, and ensure support reaches those that need it.
DEFRA should aim to produce, based on a representative sample of farms, estimates of the welfare status of each farmed animal in the UK.
The Government needs to cut taxes and do more to support domestic producers, not strangle the economy to master inflation.
Striking trade deals with different countries and blocs is a very good thing. However, we shouldn’t expect them to add too much value.
Whether it is his thoughts on Bovine Tuberculous, planning policy, or the Soil Police, he is highlighting important issues that are facing the 11 million of us that live in the countryside.
The Prime Minister is not abandoning the trade agenda on the altar of the farming lobby, just proceeding with more caution
As I vote on legislation passing through Parliament, I notice a steady stream of laws that we could not have passed were we still in the EU.
We need to give more time and resource to those bringing up children. Such parents need a much better package from the state to look after a baby in the first year of its life.
The debate over one small trade deal is a sideshow to a much larger and more important conversation about what our countryside looks like, and what it is for.
Decades of EU funding mechanisms, and centralised policymaking with multiple objectives for farmers, have left us lagging behind.
Both the agricultural sector and Conservative voters agree with the post-EU push to ensure more high-quality British food is sold and consumed here.
Food security comes not from growing everything yourself, but having the most diverse supply network you can maintain.
When there is increasing demand for Britain to be more self-sufficient in food production, destroying prime agricultural land with such projects is senseless.
Selaine Saxby and Julian Sturdy join a ConservativeHome Live discussion on how to develop the Rural Powerhouse.
My experience of taking an agri-tech start-up into three countries has shown me what can be achieved, but also the very real hurdles our innovators face here in the UK.