Environment

The Efra Committee have called on the Government to place soil health on the 'same footing' as water and air quality within Government policy

Water company celebrates 10 years of STEPS, its initiative aiming to reduce agricultural river pollution

Savills senior woodland consultant Luke Hemmings said there were many landowners who were keen to increase their carbon storage and habitat potential of their land, but the ‘approval process' for planting new woodland was an issue

The increase in funding for farm productivity from 40 to 50 per cent, on top of the extra money available for solar panels, means the Improving Productivity Grant is likely to be even more popular among farmers this time around

SRH Agribusiness’ Simon Haley looks at how Government can boost take up of the Sustainable Farming Incentive

Solar developers have been criticised by many in the industry for adopting an opportunistic approach to obtain tenanted land where a ‘cheap grid connection' could be sourced

Mr Exwood has replaced the new NFU president, Tom Bradshaw as director on the Assured Food Standards board, at a turbulent time for Red Tractor, where there is evident ‘mistrust' with its farming members

Neil Lindsay is managing director at BLC Energy, a renewable energy development company specialising in utility scale solar PV and co-located battery storage projects across the UK

NSA chief executive Phil Stocker said he was especially concerned that the Welsh Government continues to force a proposed implementation date of 2025 for SFS

Wales' Rural Affairs Minister, Lesley Griffiths said: "We have to get this right, the future of food production in Wales depends on it." Welsh Government's analysis of the SFS consultation will be published in the late Spring