Over 150 British farmers have written to Defra Secretary George Eustice demanding that the Government immediately rolls out the Landscape Recovery and Local Nature Recovery schemes, both part of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.
The five-year Farm Net Zero project aims to investigate the contribution agriculture can make to achieve the net zero target. Rebecca Jordan visits one of the farms taking part.
A blanket approach by the Government to decarbonise rural heating in favour of electric heat technologies will unfairly penalise farm businesses.
NFU Scotland has received a bashing from farming environmentalists and industry organisations over its Environmental Focus Area (EFA) derogation call.Â
As a country 85 per cent reliant on food imports, primarily from the US, Antigua and Barbuda is focusing on food security, but climate change and Covid-19 is making this no mean feat. Alice Dyer reports.
The UK Government in England is lagging behind its Welsh and Scottish counterparts with its ‘complex’ farm carbon methodology, sparking calls for investment to improve the framework.
African farmers, and others across the world, can learn how to advocate in hostile environments from each other, with many feeling their governments are acting against them.
A succession of storms have battered farming communities across the UK, with more than 2,000 claims already made to rural insurer NFU Mutual.Â
With Storm Eunice set to be one of the worst storms to hit the country in the last three decades, farmers must make safety their top priority.
ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã and rural communities are bracing themselves for extremely strong winds from Storm Eunice this weekend as the Met Office issued a rare Red Weather Warning.