Environment

Tree species, location, soil type and exposure to weather must be taken into account to ensure farmers are planting trees in the best place for long-term success while still recognising food production.

The ‘backbone of Britain’s rural communities’ will be broken if small farms are allowed to go bust, Prince Charles has warned.

The UK Government has promised to launch a consultation on public procurement this summer, with a view to buying more local food.

What is in the meaning of a word? I ask because if you look at the meaning of ‘sustainable’ in the Collins English Dictionary it states it is something ‘which conserves an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources’.

Farmers in the UK are going to come under ‘increasing pressure’ if they continue to ramp up food production unnecessarily, chairman of the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN) Martin Lines has warned.

An Environment Agency survey has found farmers are most affected by large-scale fly-tipping, with 15 per cent of landowners forced to make an insurance claim to clear dumped waste.

Farmers and villagers are calling on the Government to have a public debate on land use policy, before plans to install solar panels across 1,130 hectares of farmland are submitted next month.

Rodents have been running rampant in parts of Australia for several weeks, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to crops and buildings.

An outbreak of American Foulbrood (AFB) has been found in a single hive in an apiary in the Stanley area of Perthshire.

The Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has called for Natural England’s expanded budget to be used to help farmers join Defra’s new agri-environment scheme, Environmental Land Management.