Defra

Defra announces rate increase to reward nature-friendly farming

Group says current actions not enough to meet climate or biodiversity needs

The chief executive will join Sofina Foods as group agriculture director ‘towards the end of 2025’

Programme director for the Future Farming and Countryside Programme (FFCP) stepping down after five years

Defra has confirmed the appointment, with Emily Norton to take up the role on June 1

Defra Secretary Steve Reed goes before Efra Committee, telling them an IHT rethink would mean NHS services will be cut and reveals a new redrawn SFI will be coming early next year. Animal health is on the agenda as a single case of BSE is recorded in Essex. Meanwhile there is good news as Gen Z say farmers are the champions of the British countryside and the latest weather forecast says rain is on the way.

Defra Secretary refuses to be moved, telling MPs it is a choice between Inheritance Tax or NHS provision

APHA heads to RHS Chelsea Flower Show to explain risk to growers

Defra has confirmed the animal has been ‘humanely culled on farm’ 

In today's Farming in Five, head of news and business Alex Black discusses the Efra Committee's call for changes to Inheritance Tax to be delayed for 12 months, a call from the Environment Agency for farmers to see inspections as an 'opportunity' rather than a 'hindrance', Farmers Guardian's next webinar on dairy contract legislation and news that Morrisons will sponsor Prime Video's Clarkson's Farm, with the new series landing this week