Environment

A conservationist has warned that adopting a ‘land sparing’ approach to food production would lead to ‘ecological apartheid’.

The Government has set out a raft of legally binding targets, including a 40 per cent reduction in on-farm nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants and a 16.5 per cent increase in woodland cover, to help boost the natural environment.

Does farming green mean farming in the red or black? From yields, to working capital and profitability, Jez Fredenburgh takes a look.

The NFU is backing a group of poultry farmers who are taking their fight for avian influenza (AI) compensation to court.

Welsh farming unions and rural groups have come together to condemn plans by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to dramatically increase the cost of on-farm permits.

Tress planted outside woodlands could be worth as much as £3.8 billion, a new Government study has claimed.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

A new grant to help farmers in England better manage slurry is being introduced next month, the Government has confirmed.

Upto 1,000 hectares of Oxfordshire agricultural land is set to make way for a giant solar farm that could sit amid community allotments and bee hives, it has been revealed.

An increase in agroforestry is essential to meet nature and climate targets, while securing long-term food production, a new report from the Woodland Trust has shown.