As Labour looks to pick up rural votes in the run-up to a General Election, Rachael Brown speaks to Shadow Defra Secretary Steve Reed about the party’s plans for the countryside
As an upland tenant farmer the NFU’s new vice-president Rachel Hallos will be a powerful voice as the union navigates unprecedented change
Under the changes, new SFI applicants will only be able to put 25 per cent of their land into six SFI actions that take land out of direct food production
New project backs Defra's decarbonisation plans for agriculture and agroforestry
The Efra Committee have called on the Government to place soil health on the 'same footing' as water and air quality within Government policy
Jeremy Clarkson has faced issues with West Oxfordshire District Council for plans for diversifying the farm
CLA senior land use policy adviser Cameron Hughes said: "CLA members I speak to are often surprised at the breadth of options available through the Capital Grants scheme."
Savills senior woodland consultant Luke Hemmings said there were many landowners who were keen to increase their carbon storage and habitat potential of their land, but the ‘approval process' for planting new woodland was an issue
With peak milk for the UK now less than two months away the awareness of the spring flush is dominating European trading sentiment
The increase in funding for farm productivity from 40 to 50 per cent, on top of the extra money available for solar panels, means the Improving Productivity Grant is likely to be even more popular among farmers this time around