Union disappointed as farmers blamed for 'butterfly emergency'

NFU says unfair to just blame growers when factors such as weather and climate change play a role

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Nature campaigners are blaming low numbers of butterflies on sugar beet pesticides
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Nature campaigners are blaming low numbers of butterflies on sugar beet pesticides

The chair of the NFU environment forum has expressed his disappointment after pesticide-using farmers were targeted as the main cause for the UK's ‘butterfly emergency'. Following the results of this...

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