Environmental Land Management

Small farms invited to apply as initial £60m funding scheme gets underway

'Landmark' plan builds on Baroness Minette Batters' review with the former NFU president urging Government and industy to 'make it happen'

Applications will open on June 30 for small farms, says Defra, as further details are yet to be announced

Bodies including NFU and RSPB write to Dame Angela Eagle to enable manual appilications for those on common land

Nature Friendly Farming Network says farmers could face an 'enormous' funding gap as Countryside Stewardships come to an end

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

Mr Lines, chief executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, writes about Defra’s sudden SFI closure, how farm support payments are 'failing' farmers, the urgent action needed and why farmers cannot wait 18 months

NFU president Tom Bradshaw to say there is ‘so much more to do' and there is still time for this Government to 'reset its relationship with farming and rural Britain'

The Farming and Countryside Programme (FCP) annual report revealed a £130 million underspend of the agriculture budget for 2023/24 alone