pollution

The Nature Friendly Farming Network chief executive has written on the need to improve water quality in agriculture and why a food system which values environmental outcomes as much as yield is vitally important moving forward

Baroness Sheehan writes on how the majority of ammonia and nitrous oxide pollution to water comes from the agricultural sector and the ways it can reduce, recycle and reuse nitrogen pollution

A new report from the Environment Agency (EA) shows consistently poor performance from all nine water and sewerage companies in the region, with serious pollution incidents in 2024 up 60% from 2023

Farmers could face reducing livestock numbers by 80% to meet government nutrient targets

The Environment Agency has been given a funding boost to help clean-up Britain's water supplies and reduce pollution

Emergency meeting called as NI leaders say nutrient restrictions pose threat to food security

Daera's plans to reform the Nutrients Action Programme and improve water quality have been described by UFU as a 'backdoor attempt' to reduce flocks and herds with increased layers of regulation

Avara Foods and Welsh Water accused of allowing 'industrial scale' chicken production to contaminate waterways

NFU Cymru said Welsh farmers had waited four years for the review and it had failed to reflect ‘the sheer desperation of farmers in Wales in grappling with the impracticality of the regulations'

In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown reports on new Government plans that could force farmers and landowners to sell their land at a lower value, how lab-grown meat, dairy and sugar could hit retail shelves within two years, and a 'landmark' court ruling for environmental campaign group River Action, which has thrown out the NFU's bid to have chicken manure classed as an agricultural by-product, rather than as industrial ‘waste'