In today's Farming in Five, chief reporter Rachael Brown analyses the fall out from the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), with the Farming Minister telling MPs that farmers were not given notice on closure as it would have led to a 'further spike in applications'. The National Trust says Defra's decision to close SFI to new applications will leave farmers facing a 'four month funding gap'. And she takes a look at the NFU's farmer confidence survey which is reportedly at an 'all time low'
Environmental groups back farmers and join condemnation of Government announcement
In a landmark event for nature conservation, the National Trust have released the first two pairs of Eurasian beavers to live in the wild in Purbeck, Dorset, after a new policy was announced by Defra and Natural England last week
The show will follow the National Trust as it searches for a new tenant of a 243-hectare farm in Eryri National Park
Two FG readers share their thoughts on Labour's Inheritance Tax changes and the National Trust's 'wildlife and nature recovery' focus
The organisation has launched a new 10-year strategy to ‘ramp up' its efforts to address the climate and nature crises
"Though Mr Pearson was offered the opportunity to avoid a criminal conviction, he chose to ignore that, leading to this hearing"
"We should not allow farmland to be taken away by the National Trust"
Seasonal crop latest to suffer from growing season plagued by bad weather and pests
Archie Benson, 22, is studying Agriculture at Harper Adams University and he is from Sherborne in the Cotswolds