
Environment
Defra: How to deal with this summer's dry weather
With predicted heat waves due over the coming weeks, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is advising...
Environment
With predicted heat waves due over the coming weeks, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is advising...
Environment
A new UK parliamentary report has highlighted regenerative agriculture as a promising, farmer-led approach to improving soil health, biodiversity, and...
Pig/Poultry
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that a case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)...
Agri-Business
More than £2.7 billion will be invested in sustainable farming and nature recovery each year from 2026/27 to 2028/29, according...
Agri-Business
In a significant drive to end the UK badger cull, tuberculosis (TB) vaccinations administered to badgers in England increased by...
Agri-Business
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs’s (DEFRA) latest figures show a profitability boost for the 2024 fiscal year....
Agri-Business
The Department for Environment, food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has allocated £13.6 million funding to charities across the UK to...
Agri-Business
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for a cross-government biosecurity plan and sufficient investment to counter the increased biosecurity...
Environment
The Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced new proposals to ban heather burning on upland peat....
Agri Politics
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has called the Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) a “failing department” after...
Arable
The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published the official UK grain and oilseed rape (OSR)...
Dairy
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today (Sunday, December 15) confirmed that the total number of...
N.Ireland
There is a notable decrease in food secure households in the UK according to a report from the Department for...
Agri Politics
Yesterday (Monday, November 4) the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) met with the Defra secretary of state and treasury officials to...
Agri Politics
Following an environmental pledge made during 2020, Defra has now published the final criteria and next steps for plans to...
Agri Politics
A new report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed an underspend in the agriculture budget...
Agri-Business
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed bluetongue in animals on two new sites in...
Agri Politics
The National Farmers’ Union of Scotland (NFUS) has welcomed a letter written to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...