Environmental Land Management

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

Wildlife groups say planned reintroductions must be speeded up to avoid conservationists releasing the animals into unsuitable habitats

Government says rollout reflects its commitment to back nation's farmers

"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"

One-day event aims to discuss how the sector adapts to the changing farming landscape

The regulations in England will include a two metre ‘buffer strip' from the centre of hedgerows with no cultivation or application of pesticides or fertilisers, as well as hedge cutting ban between March 1 and August 31