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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.  

Defra said its new Bovine TB Partnership will be a driving force in helping to progress the Government’s aim of eradicating the disease by 2038. Olivia Midgley speaks to two farmers on the board. 

Íæż½ã½ã who applied for 2020 Countryside Stewardship (CS) grants almost 12 months ago are still in limbo after civil servants said they could not visit their farms to sign off applications due to Covid-19.

A domestic cat in Ireland contracted TB from a badger which had been vaccinated with the BCG vaccine.