Environment

Gene editing and bovine TB were hot topics at the Farmers Union of Wales’ Senedd manifesto launch. Abi Kay reports.

Farm groups in England and Wales have called on their Governments to carry out investigations after water companies were caught illegally dumping sewage in rivers.

New Scottish Government proposals for reducing emissions from slurry and silage stores have been met with a severe rebuke from NFU Scotland, with the union branding them ‘blunt and ill thought out’.

Wresting a living from a way of farming that is as old as the hills sees traditional shepherding combined with more modern thinking and, as one mother and daughter team told Gaina Morgan, it is about finding the balance.

Wildlife groups have urged the Government to introduce a legally binding target to halt the decline of habitats and species by 2030 at the latest.

Wildlife groups have urged the Government to introduce a legally binding target to halt the decline of habitats and species by 2030 at the latest.

A record number of farmers, landowners and gamekeepers took part in the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Big Farmland Bird Count.

Farmers have already started planting young saplings as part of the National Trust’s commitment to establishing 20 million new trees by 2030.

First Milk has become the latest processor to announce ambitious sustainability plans, pledging to be net zero by 2040.

The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) has called on Government to establish an Agroecology Development Bank to kickstart a ‘rural transformation’.