Sustainable Farming

A cohort of farmers is calling on the Environment Agency to take action on a stretch of river before more homes are flooded and crops and wildlife habitats destroyed.

The Prince’s Countryside Fund in conjunction with McDonalds UK has launched a new guide aimed at helping farmers and suppliers understand more about climate change.

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’.

It may come as little surprise that New Zealand is now eyeing tariff free access to the UK in wake of the Australia trade deal.

Farming unions have expressed their disappointment at the failure to provide further detail about global sustainability policies at the G7 summit.

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.

A carbon border tax could be an ’appropriate mechanism’ to address the imbalance should overseas producers fail to meet the UK’s environmental standards, CLA president Mark Bridgeman has said. 

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.