Government grants must support commercial woodland in order to give farmers an incentive to plant trees amid soaring demand for home-grown timber following Russian sanctions, forestry experts have said.

The Farming Innovation Programme has been set up by Defra to bring farmers and researchers closer together. Abi Kay explores the funding on offer.

NFU Cymru has been left ‘incredibly disappointed’ after a judicial review of the Welsh Government’s decision to introduce new water quality regulations was dismissed by the High Court today.

The EU has committed to look again at its two flagship sustainable food policies, amid concerns the Russian invasion of Ukraine will hit supplies.

Immigration Minister Kevin Foster has refused to apologise for suggesting Ukrainian refugees could come to the UK to pick fruit.

Just weeks ago, there was almost unanimous agreement that these things had been consigned to the history books and were a relic of the early 20th century.

The Labour Party’s new Shadow Defra Secretary, Jim McMahon, has claimed culls are only effective ‘in the sense that you have a dead badger at the end of it’.  

The Labour Partys new Shadow Defra Secretary, Jim McMahon, has claimed culls are only effective in the sense that you have a dead badger at the end of it.

Initial payments under the Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELM) cannot increase unless direct support is cut faster, Defra Secretary George Eustice has said.