The Soil Association respond to the recent complaint claiming the use of fake farm names and misleading branding in the industry. A comment from chief executive,...
The NFU’s second application to allow farmers in some areas of England to use two banned bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides has been rejected by the Government. This action by...
Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to reject a second NFU application asking them to allow farmers to use banned pesticide, neonicotinoid. Friends...
Friends of the Earth have sent a detailed report to the Expert Committee on Pesticides in the hope that they will disregard an application for farmers...
British MEPs are being pressured by the agriculture lobby to water down proposed new EU air pollution legislation being voted on this week. The National Emission...
Pressure is mounting for the government to rethink plans to savagely cut support for rooftop solar energy systems. A coalition of energy firms, investors and trade...
Campaign group 38 Degrees has called on Secretary of State for Environment Elizabeth Truss not to lift the ban on toxic neonicotinoids responsible for pollinators’ decline....
Farming leaders have warned that by 2040 the UK will need to import almost half of its food to meet demand as the population rises. A...
A new report commissioned by UK farming bodies has claimed that EU plans to ban pesticides could reduce crop yields, causing food prices to go up...
The president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has condemned proposals to flood land on high ground to prevent homes and businesses in towns and cities...
£3.5 billion will be taken from the government’s farming subsidies budget for efforts to improve England’s environment, it has been announced. On Thursday, the Department for...
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has written to MPs, urging them against cuts to the agriculture industry’s subsidies. The plans, which will see financial support for...
A licence has been granted to enable badger culling to be continued in the west Gloucestershire pilot area for eight weeks, Natural England has confirmed. The...
The Badger Trust has said plans to extend the badger culling period are illegal, in a letter sent to Natural England. The pilot badger cull in...
The government has published a statement explaining that it must accept the EU ban of the pesticides linked to bee deaths, but that it rejects the...