The UK Government will reform one of the key subsidy schemes that encourages nature-friendly farming practices, after a lack of clarity over budgets and timeframes last year left thousands of farmers ...

The NFU has welcomed commitments from Defra to work collaboratively with farmers and growers, as well as the need for clarity ...

The government's flagship SFI nature-friendly farming payments scheme will reopen in June – focusing more support on smaller farms, the ...

Two public consultations with the aim of phasing out enriched cages for laying hens, and ending castration and tail docking ...

English farmers have been given long-awaited clarity on the future of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), after Defra confirmed the scheme will ...

The government set out changes to inheritance tax, environmental schemes and farm funding as the Defra Secretary addressed ...

Farming in Protected Landscapes scheme to be extended by three years, as Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds promises to ...

Reforms to simplify and stabilise the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) are to be set out by the Environment Secretary ...

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 ...

Every chicken at a commercial poultry site in Nottinghamshire will be culled after a case of bird flu was confirmed. The ...

One thing you can guarantee about the run-up to Christmas, alongside frantic last-minute shopping and a sense of impending doom, is that Defra will drop a major policy announcement just when the rest ...

A case of bird flu has been confirmed at a large commercial poultry farm near York. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was ...