tree planting

An environmental baselining pilot led by AHDB with support from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has found that 14% of the farms analysed so far are already beyond net zero with more than half managing livestock

Every winter for the last five years, the ‘Talybont Floodees’ have planted trees alongside Welsh farmer Rhodri Lloyd-Williams

Should agricultural support schemes go even further than focusing on tree planting to support the environment?

For Jenny Lee, who farms on the edge of the Lake District in Cumbria, creating a thriving family business that worked with nature and supported the land was key

NFU Cymru president Aled Jones said: "No farmer, wherever they reside, should be impacted like this by a poorly designed policy"

NFU senior countryside adviser, Claire Robinson said farmers had engaged with stewardship Capital Grants which support environmental delivery, ‘to only find the application window is suddenly closed for a review'

New UK group will oversee multi-million planting and peatland restoration schemes

The CAAV said an increase in applications and growing budget pressures has meant Rural Payments Agency has paused offers

The farm-level 10% tree cover figure has been removed and will be replaced by a scheme-wide target, which will be agreed after discussions with the Ministerial Roundtable

Ag in my Land is a global farming series looking at agriculture across the world. This month Emily Ashworth speaks to Greg Hart of Mangarara Farm in New Zealand