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Challenging season plus concern over SFI options deterring farmers, says industry group

This week from Íæż½ã½ã editor Olivia Midgley

The chair of Labour's Climate and Environment Forum Baroness Young said she hoped the ‘multi-functional' land use framework would be operationally ‘sustainable'

Graham Redman, partner at agribusiness consultants The Andersons Centre said the business aspect of farming was pressing on the farming community ‘even more so than ever before', and he urged farmers to look beyond the headline figures on Government environmental schemes, which he said could look appealing but came with ‘obligations' and ‘costs'

Cumbrian sheep farmer and author James Rebanks reflects on his decision to turn down the invite to apply for a non-executive director at Defra

Farming Minister Daniel Zeichner shares his thoughts following a meeting with G20 Agriculture Ministers in Brazil

TFA chief executive George Dunn said he believes farmers should be encouraged to consider what investment they need in their businesses over a three-year period and then use those plans to apply for a level of annual grant to support those goals

David Morley, head of conservation and environment at H&H Land and Estates outlines some of the key changes to the options available

The farming union is calling for a 'renewed and enhanced multi-annual agricultural budget of £5.6 million'

Applications now open for managing priority habitat species-rich grassland