Farmland

Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has called for action to address the amount of productive sheep and beef farmland being lost to forestry, particularly for carbon farming

"We should not allow farmland to be taken away by the National Trust"

"We know that there is a perception that the majority of our investment in flood defences goes to protect urban populations. All flood and coastal risk management projects must be carefully assessed to make sure they benefit the most people and property. But that does not mean we do not prioritise rural communities"

"The developer still has a huge mountain to climb before they send in the diggers to the food production fields of rural East Cambridgeshire and Suffolk"

Conservative MP Robbie Moore said he was concerned that the Energy and Net Zero Secretary had not listened to rural and farming communities after providing the green light for three solar farm developments in Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire

The Energy and Net Zero Secretary said the biggest threat to farming is from climate change and not solar farm developments

Numerous politicians and campaigners said they were frustrated and angered by the new Energy and Net Zero Secretary's decision which could take productive agricultural land out of production for a solar farm

Ed Barker, head of policy and external affairs at the Agricultural Industries Confederation, has reflected on some of the issues the new Labour Government needs to address in the agricultural sector

The Scottish farming Union said the deal could provide farmers and crofters with an additional income stream for farmers and crofters

Farmers can no longer turn a blind eye to a business’ impact on local water quality, says Martin Lines