Nature

GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count shows farmer-led conservation is working

Environment

GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count shows farmer-led conservation is working

Environment group urges Government to continue SFI in order to protect wildlife

clock 10 July 2025 • 2 min read
Get farming into schools: "A quiet revolution is happening across the UK's classrooms and farmyards"

Education

Get farming into schools: "A quiet revolution is happening across the UK's classrooms and farmyards"

Founder of Food, Farming, Education, Olivia Shave is calling for farming and nature to be at the heart of the curriculum

clock 08 July 2025 • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "We cannot achieve our shared and ambitious environmental and nature goals without farmers"

Politics

EXCLUSIVE - Aphra Brandreth: "We cannot achieve our shared and ambitious environmental and nature goals without farmers"

Chester South and Eddisbury MP Aphra Brandreth said Government needs farmers onboard if the UK is to successful reach its climate and nature goals

clock 03 July 2025 • 3 min read
Regen Special Farming Matters: Angus Gowthorpe - "I had to make changes for the longer term improvement and for the next generation"

Farm focus

Regen Special Farming Matters: Angus Gowthorpe - "I had to make changes for the longer term improvement and for the next generation"

Based in the Vale of York, Angus Gowthorpe is a member of the regenerative farming group the Green Farm Collective, he grows arable crops and has a suckler herd.

clock 30 June 2025 • 4 min read
Regenerative agriculture survey: What does farming regeneratively really mean?

Sustainable Farming

Regenerative agriculture survey: What does farming regeneratively really mean?

WIN: A free Farmers Guardian digital subscription just for responding! The responses to this survey will be published in a regen special edition on June 27

clock 23 June 2025 • 1 min read
Farmers' views sought on how private companies could benefit nature recovery

Environment

Farmers' views sought on how private companies could benefit nature recovery

Defra issues call for evidence looking at increased business investment in the natural environment

clock 15 June 2025 • 2 min read
Prince of Wales unveils his vision for Dartmoor

Farm Business

Prince of Wales unveils his vision for Dartmoor

Twenty-year roadmap sets out plan to protect nature, farming and the climate

clock 13 June 2025 • 2 min read
Attempts to revoke Lake District's World Heritage Site status a 'poorly misguided' attack on farmers

Politics

Attempts to revoke Lake District's World Heritage Site status a 'poorly misguided' attack on farmers

Conservationists have said the Lake District's World Heritage Site status is being used to defend and protect a model of farming which is 'bad for farmers, bad for the environment and bad for wider society'

clock 10 June 2025 • 4 min read
Rural and farming communities cannot be treated as 'museums' to deliver growth and new homes

Land and property

Rural and farming communities cannot be treated as 'museums' to deliver growth and new homes

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner said Government will accelerate planning changes to support small and medium-sized house builders to develop new homes in rural communities

clock 29 May 2025 • 4 min read
Farmers demand clarity as fears grow that ELM budget could be cut at the next Spending Review

Environment

Farmers demand clarity as fears grow that ELM budget could be cut at the next Spending Review

NFU president Tom Bradshaw said the farming organisation was seeking urgent clarity from Defra after leaks from Government have revealed that Chancellor Rachel Reeves could make cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget at the Spending Review

clock 28 May 2025 • 7 min read