Environment

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.

More than 2,000 farmers have responded to Defra’s call for applicants for the pilot of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), one of the Government’s three new schemes.

Farmers capture carbon for a living. We must be part of the solution to climate change. What’s more, as well as saving the planet, we might be able to earn a few quid in the process. But a frenzy of opportunistic corporate ’greenwashing’ is putting all that at risk.

Green energy certificates were ‘closing the loop’ on renewable electricity produced by Arla farmers, boosting the price farmers receive for their power and helping the cooperative to reduce its carbon footprint.

Scottish farmers could find themselves at the heart of a land use battle over the coming years, with calls for the new Government to make Scotland the world’s first ‘rewilding nation’ gathering pace.

Ministers have been urged to explain how the Environment Bill will affect farming, with concerns growing that the industry will be hit by burdensome new regulation and costs.

Sea eagle predation appears to be spreading to new areas of the Western Isles, as the population of the giant raptors continues to increase.

Another week and seemingly another far fetched plan emerges to bring back a long gone, but clearly not forgotten species.

Escalating business rates on anaerobic digestion (AD) operators threaten the UK’s ability to meet its net zero targets, according to industry leaders.