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Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed ...

After a frantic six-hour scramble for SFI nature payments provoked fury from farmers, Defra says it is weighing up changes to the application system for 2027.

Hay bales being moved at Rawston Farm, near Blandford. Farmers in Dorset say that the government's recently launched Farming Roadmap doesn't do enough to help producers. The DEFRA scheme lays out a ...

The founder of Save British Farming says Defra secretary Dame Angela Eagle personally apologised for the government’s farm ...

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The latest injection of government cash for sustainable agriculture vanished in less than a day. Farmers rushed to claim their share of more than £230m in funding before the door slammed shut. This is ...

Shadow farming minister Robbie Moore told BASC’s Conservative conference reception the party will fight shoot licensing. Defra’s review closes 1 November.

WWF has criticised the UK Government’s apparent decision to exclude environmental charities and ecologists from a new farming industry board intended to boost resilience and profitability across the ...

The Government is facing an angry backlash over the abrupt closure of its flagship nature-friendly farming payments scheme for new applicants this year. The Environment Department (Defra) announced ...