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Farming sector joins new taskforce to tackle floods and drought
Farming representatives will join a new national taskforce this week to examine Britain's preparedness for flooding and drought following a year of…
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Farmers urged to prepare for floods as £4.2bn defence push unveiled
Farmers and rural communities are being urged to prepare for increasingly unpredictable weather as the government launches a new flood advice service…
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Major solar farm approved despite productive farmland fears
A major solar farm covering nearly 3,000 acres of Northamptonshire countryside has been approved by the government, despite concerns over its impact…
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Just six Scottish farms report using Bovaer, new figures reveal
Only six out of more than 6,400 Scottish farm holdings reported using the methane-reducing feed additive Bovaer, new government figures reveal…
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England suffers worst cereal and oilseed harvest in over 40 years
England has recorded its smallest combined cereal and oilseed rape harvest in a historical series dating back to 1984, as extreme heat and drought…
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£15m farm investment grants set to reach NI farmers
Northern Ireland farmers will begin receiving the first £15 million worth of offers under a major new farm investment scheme from Thursday, with…
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136 hectares of farmland to be rewetted in Great Fen project
Work has begun to rewet 136 hectares of former wheat and potato land in Cambridgeshire, as a major new trial seeks to show whether peat restoration…
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Four in ten farmers consider quitting as uncertainty mounts
More than four in ten British farmers have considered quitting farming as financial pressure, policy uncertainty and increasingly unpredictable…
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Rural campaigners urge controlled burning reform as wildfire risks rise
Farmers and landowners should be given greater freedom to use controlled burning to reduce wildfire risk, rural campaigners have said, after an…
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EA and Natural England face axe under Tory deregulation plans
The Conservatives have pledged to abolish the Environment Agency and Natural England and transfer their functions into Defra, in a shake-up that…
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