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Martin Lines: "The closure of SFI has highlighted just how fragile the current system is"

Martin Lines: "The closure of SFI has highlighted just how fragile the current system is"

Mr Lines, chief executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, writes about Defra’s sudden SFI closure, how farm support payments are 'failing' farmers, the urgent action needed and why farmers cannot wait 18 months

Politics
Chris Brayford
clock 17 March 2025 • 4 min read
Politics

Ed Dungait: "Is this Labour Government deliberately attempting to destroy farming businesses to free up land for other uses?"

clock 17 March 2025 • 5 min read
Politics

OPINION: 'Broken promises, increased taxation, plugging support schemes and empty words have pushed farmers to breaking point'

clock 16 March 2025 • 2 min read
Farm Business

Farming Matters: Ben Aveling - "It's time farmers are paid fairly, as this is truly the only way to save British farms, especially if the Inheritance Tax holds firm"

clock 15 March 2025 • 4 min read
Shows & Sales

View from the rostrum: Adam Grieve – A new era for the cattle trade

clock 14 March 2025 • 3 min read
Politics

Letters: How can the Government claim to be aligned with a greener economy, only to turn its back on the very farmers who are driving sustainability?

clock 14 March 2025 • 1 min read
Politics

From the editor: How many chances will farmers give Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet as they blunder on with their botched approach to agricultural policy?

clock 13 March 2025 • 3 min read
Andy Cato: "Drones and missiles will not protect us if there is no bread"

Politics

Andy Cato: "Drones and missiles will not protect us if there is no bread"

Wildfarmed's Andy Cato writes on Defra's SFI24 closure, why it is vital that farmers receive support for their efforts in nature and climate recovery, and why nature-rich food production should be seen as the most valuable of investments rather than a subsidy by Government

clock 13 March 2025 • 3 min read
View from the rostrum: Stephen Dodsworth - Prices are high, moods are low.

Shows & Sales

View from the rostrum: Stephen Dodsworth - Prices are high, moods are low.

Stephen Dodsworth on farmers' fears

clock 13 March 2025 • 4 min read
Alistair Carmichael: "80 years of Government interference in the food market has hard-wired unfairness into it. It is Britain's farmers who have lost out as a result"

Politics

Alistair Carmichael: "80 years of Government interference in the food market has hard-wired unfairness into it. It is Britain's farmers who have lost out as a result"

Mr Carmichael, chair of the Efra Committee, writes about the need to address the problem of low farm incomes, how his Food Supply Chain Fairness Bill could help shift the dial for farmers in getting a fair price for their produce, and the need to take on the supermarket giants and give back power to farmers

clock 12 March 2025 • 3 min read