Environment

Government ambitions to boost food production, protect nature and fight climate change, risk ‘overpromising’ on UK available land, a new report has revealed.

More than 100,000 people have signed an NFU petition calling on the Government to ban sky lanterns across England and Wales.

The NFU has hit out at reports that troubled train line HS2 is facing a new raft of problems, with the union claiming that any further disruption to farm businesses would be ‘unacceptable’.

Cambridge City Council has been accused of wasting food after councillors shunned its new vegan menu.

The Government has announced a raft of changes to its Environmental Land Management Schemes in a bid to encourage more farmers to sign-up.

Work being done by UK farmers to monitor farmland bird numbers and improve biodiversity should be recognised and celebrated, according to the founder of the country’s biggest farmland bird count.

A water company has been fined more than £500,000 after a raw sewage discharge killed 5,000 fish in a Northamptonshire river.

Jon Davies, director of RSK Wilding, explains why we should ignore any polarising rhetoric around farming and wildlife and get on with creating an agricultural landscape that is sustainable, biodiverse and productive.

Increasing the amount of meat substitutes eaten in processed products is likely to have ‘perverse’ environmental consequences, according to a top professor.

Sustainability, high quality, animal welfare and the sense of community are the things which make farmers most proud to be part of the UK industry.