Environment

A Leicestershire farm which generates 85% of its power requirements from a wind turbine has recently been announced as winner of a sustainability award. Jonathan Wheeler reports.

Defra has launched a £12.5 million competition to help accelerate the development of technologies to create new sources of resource efficient, low-emission proteins.

Regenerative farmers think differently, says Gabe Brown – and their minds, farms, and pockets, are often happier for it. He talks to Jez Fredenburgh about the importance of mindset.  

Defra must reword its ‘unachievable’ Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) arable soils standard on organic matter or risk it being snubbed by farmers, according to Stephen Ridsdale, chair of the British Farming Union.

The petitioners have called for the Government to ban the erection of solar panels on land which could be used to grow food and fibre or plant trees

NFU president Minette Batters has slammed the Government’s move to push through ‘last minute’ legislation on the legal protection of beavers before the summer recess, branding it ‘unacceptable’.

A moorland wildfire has released carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions equivalent to the annual carbon footprint of a small town of 4,000 people, a new report has found.

Environmental targets enshrined in law will remain at the forefront of future agricultural policy regardless of who ends up in Number 10, according to a top Defra civil servant.

A farmer in Somerset has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after pleading guilty to polluting the River Frome.

Farmers and landowners can utilise the Forestry Commission’s ‘flexible’ England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) to produce a woodland which meets their own objectives.