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

Hard working people on middle incomes such as teachers and nurses have been squeezed out of renting in rural towns and villages in southern England, reveals new analysis from CPRE, the countryside charity

CLA senior land use policy adviser Cameron Hughes said: "CLA members I speak to are often surprised at the breadth of options available through the Capital Grants scheme."

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

Industry figures said if the Government want to protect food production, the best way to do that was to ensure Sustainable Farming Incentive applicants had to fill in an ‘active farming test'

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

Harry Greenfield is the Nature lead at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and author of the report: 'Ahead of the curve: A preparatory guide on nature for the agri-food sector'

The plans will be subjected to a five-week consultation and would look to retain badger culling as an option in targeted parts only of the high-risk area and edge areas including much of southwest and central England

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

This week from Farmers Guardian editor Olivia Midgley (March 14)