Former NFU president and crossbench peer, Baroness Minette Batters, has been appointed to lead a review of farm profitability. The appointment was made by Secretary of…
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After rumblings that changes were coming to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), Defra announced last night that it had stopped accepting new applications. It states that…
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Steve Reed has announced greater protection for homes, businesses and farmland from flooding, with a commitment of…
Payments to those in Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship agreements totalled £343m last week, with more than 31,000 farmers receiving a share. it has also announced…
Released last night, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Steve Reed, have sent out a joint…
The government has confirmed that it will bring forward new laws that will allow new precision breeding technology, including gene editing, to be used to grow…
The government has announced that it will introduce a new deal for farmers, following figures from Defra which indicate that confidence remains poor across the sector.…
New measures have been confirmed today regarding how environmental land management schemes work alongside food production. They involve limiting the amount of land that farmers can…
One in eight eligible farmers has now submitted applications for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) since September, despite concerns that more information is needed. The scheme,…
UK farmers nationwide have been protesting and blocking roads across England and Wales in an outrage against recent legislative changes to the agricultural sector. The marches…