tree planting

The Grants will open in July, funding a range of items from hedgerow and tree planting through to works that improve water quality

Uplands look set to bear brunt of change as Defra insists a successful farming sector is one of its key drivers

Farmers urged to apply £825 per hectare incentive which will sit alongside newly reviewed Woodland Creation Grant rate

Several hundred trees were planted in an iconic woodland on Dartmoor last week as efforts continue to double its size

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'