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Photos of the aftermath of a dog attack which left a number of sheep and a pet dog dead have gone viral after being shared by online media platform LADbible.

They are often seen as a big part of the solution to mitigating climate change but while trees have a major role to play in sequestering carbon, plantings must be carefully thought out.

Making the most of stewardship schemes now could help you get ready for the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme. Olivia Midgley reports.

Seeing Countryside Stewardship boost his own bottom line, Edward Earnshaw is now helping other farmers start their journey into agri-environment schemes. Olivia Midgley reports.

Neil Harkness and his partner farm at Hole of Lyne, a 40.4-hectare (100-acre) upland hill farm in the very north eastern Cumbrian border.

The Countryside Stewardship (CS) scheme covers a range of schemes – mid-tier stewardship, streamlined wildlife offers, higher-tier stewardship and capital item applications to support boundaries and hedgerow improvements, wat

An improved capital grants offer represents the biggest change to this year’s Countryside Stewardship (CS) scheme. Strutt and Parker farm consultant Paul Dennison explains what opportunities this presents.

The full Sustainable Farming Incentive will not be available until 2024, but a scaled-back version of it will launch in 2022.

Graham Tweddle and his family are the third generation to farm at Archdeacon Newton.

Antony Ollerton, an arable farmer from Wigan, used two Capital Grant schemes in 2019 and 2020 which allowed him to concrete the farmyard.