Sustainable Farming

A crackdown on hare coursing led to more than 20 arrests in just one month, police in Lincolnshire have revealed.

Zoe Colville, also known as The Chief Shepherdess, is on a successful one-woman mission to show that #FarmingCAN. Liam Mooney reports.

Tress planted outside woodlands could be worth as much as £3.8 billion, a new Government study has claimed.

TENANTS have been warned to be on their guard, with rewilding the new ‘landowner craze’.

TENANTS have been warned to be on their guard, with rewilding the new landowner craze.

Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Sir Ed Davey has called on the Government to appoint a cross-departmental minister to address the needs of rural communities.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

Wheat is successfully being produced in an indoor vertical farm using no soil or pesticides and less water when compared with conventional methods.

Upto 1,000 hectares of Oxfordshire agricultural land is set to make way for a giant solar farm that could sit amid community allotments and bee hives, it has been revealed.

An increase in agroforestry is essential to meet nature and climate targets, while securing long-term food production, a new report from the Woodland Trust has shown.