Nature

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

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

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'

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

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

The responses to this Farmers Guardian survey will be published in a regen special edition on June 27

River flow and rainfall averages plummet as dry weather set to continue

The NFU said that with no legislative target for food production, it was the ‘poor relation' in negotiations and believed the Government was wrong to assume farm productivity levels would compensate for the loss of agricultural land

Great British Beef Week is in its 15th year and puts beef farmers in the spotlight

Aardman Animations' Peter Lord, most notable for developing Wallace and Gromit, is behind the project