Environment

Homegrown apples and pears are the most ‘green’ on UK supermarket shelves, according to new research by British Apples and Pears (BAPL) and the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).

Prince Charles has revealed that he follows a flexed diet in which he avoids meat and dairy products on some days of the week. Jonathan Wheeler reports.

Homegrown apples and pears are the most green on UK supermarket shelves, according to new research by British Apples and Pears (BAPL) and the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).

Several major global companies have teamed up to provide funding for a range of nature restoration projects across the UK.

Sea eagle predation along Scotland’s western seaboard is becoming a rapidly increasing threat to hill farming as lamb losses mount.

Key elements of Defra’s new environmental grant schemes are still not in place despite the initial rollout just months away and low uptake of farmers.

The Government’s new commitment to soil health will be ’hollow words’ if the House of Commons rejects ’a crucial amendment’ to the Environmental Bill, the Soil Association (SA) has warned.

As a farmer who took part in the UK Government’s genetically modified (GM) crop farm-scale evaluation trials 20 years ago, and as a passionate advocate of the importance of genetic innovation to healthier and more sustainable food production, I read your article ‘The term ‘gene editing’ is confusing consumers’ (FG, July 26) with an uneasy sense of deja vu and a concern that we must learn from past mistakes.

Destocking on Dartmoor has led to molinia (purple moor grass) becoming out of control and taking over the moor.

Hedgerows, for some people, can be very emotive things. Part of the patchwork quilt that forms much of the UK landscape, they provoke a range of feelings from the farming and non-farming fraternity.