Environment
Farmers handed new support to keep ponies on Dartmoor
Dartmoor ponies will no longer count towards livestock limits in new environmental agreements, as ministers move to protect the moor’s historic herds…
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Record heat linked to unprecedented fall in UK milk deliveries
UK dairy farms delivered the equivalent of 25 million fewer pints of milk during the May and June heatwaves, marking the first major heat-related…
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Farmers central to new plan to protect 30% of England for nature
Ministers have unveiled a new plan to protect 30% of England’s land for nature by 2030, with farmers and landowners expected to play a central role…
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SFI26 Window 1 funding hits 75% as farmers urged to act
Farmers are being warned not to delay Sustainable Farming Incentive applications after Defra confirmed that three-quarters of the first-window budget…
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Farm groups call for overhaul of livestock emissions accounting
A coalition of 42 farming organisations from 17 countries is urging governments to report agricultural methane separately from carbon dioxide. The…
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Beef and lamb roadmap charts route to 7.9% emissions cut
Beef and sheep farmers could cut annual emissions by 1.9 million tonnes while improving productivity under a new environmental roadmap for England…
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Supply chains warned not to dump carbon costs on farmers
Farmers risk being left to carry the cost and legal uncertainty of supply-chain carbon targets without fair payment, rural organisations have warned…
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Cow-sharing scheme uses cattle to tackle Welsh wildfire risk
Cattle are being used to help fight wildfire risk on one of Wales’s rarest landscapes, as a community grazing scheme tackles flammable vegetation and…
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£13bn Devon data centre plan delayed amid farmland concerns
A proposed £13bn data centre and battery storage scheme on north Devon farmland has been delayed after growing concern over its scale, countryside…
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Lower grazing levels fuelling moorland fires, sheep body warns
Moorland wildfires are being made worse by years of reduced sheep grazing and rising fuel loads, the National Sheep Association has warned. The…
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