pollution

An agricultural risk expert is advising farmers to check their silage clamps following a string of hefty fines for silage pollution

The 'River Wye Action Plan' will offer £35m in grant support for on-farm poultry manure combustors in the Wye Special Area of Conservation catchment to facilitate the export of poultry manure to where it is needed

Silage effluent found to have polluted watercourse close to Taunton dairy farm

The Environment Agency said F.A.W. Bakers Kingston Farm Ltd of Rushywood Farm near Crewkerne at Taunton Magistrates' Court after receiving a report of sewage fungus in a watercourse

The report recommended the Government to fund the widespread, standardised testing of soil through its Environmental Land Management schemes and to work with industry on an agreed set of metrics of soil health by next year

Councils aim to offset nutrient pollution in order for new homes to be built

On Tuesday (October 24), the EFRA Committee will question Therese Coffey MP on the implementation of Environmental Land Management schemes, risks from avian flu, possible poultry vaccination and the 'serious difficulties facing tenant farmers'

Chief executive of the Welsh Dee Trust has warned ‘drawn out discussions' between tenants and landlords on who needs to pay for changes, means action to tackle pollution on-farm is often delayed

Defra was probed on a specific date in autumn in which the online checker would open, but failed to give one. They said they were preparing to launch round two of the scheme and guidance would be issued soon