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With now 102 actions to choose from in the latest Sustainable Farming Incentive announcement, NFU senior countryside adviser Claire Robinson runs through the new options

As maize continues to be drilled around the country, we chat to experts about the benefits of establishing an under-sown grass crop, suitable varieties, and payments available

The announcement came just 24 hours after Defra unveiled its ‘improved and expanded' Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer

More than 800 growers and agronomists log-on to manage production following wet weather

University of Warwick welcome steps to support fruit and vegetable growers

Defra says programme offers more opportunity for farmers across the industry - who will it help?

Commodity prices, SFI commitments and soil conditions will impact planting decisions

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said Steve Barclay had been clear the Government would continue the BPS phase-out, and the union are considering how hard they are prepared to ‘fight' on the issue

With the focus on landlord-tenant relationships at the NFU tenant conference, some farmers felt more needed to be done to tackle bad practice by landlords and their land agents

The code has been introduced at a time when tenants in the north of England are facing notices to quit by estates as a result of 'inheritance tax planning', as well as poor collaboration around the Landscape Recovery project