Countryside Stewardship

Cambridgeshire brothers Mat and Lloyd Smith are taking bold steps to safeguard a sustainable future for their family's fenland arable farm. Teresa Rush reports

Last year we fenced off a stream gully which runs through the middle of the farm

A move from Sussex to Lancashire has enabled Eden and John Hill to pursue their farming dream

Farming Minister Mark Spencer has batted away concerns that the increased Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme payments announced this morning (January 5) are ‘too little, too late’.