Today the Government has paused all new applications from farmers to access England’s flagship green farming scheme.

Today the UK Government has paused all new applications from farmers to access England’s flagship green farming scheme.

In England those basic payments are being phased out and replaced by environmental payments. The Sustainable Farming Incentive is one of the new schemes. It offered a range of options like improving ...

The Environment Department (Defra) announced late on Tuesday that the sustainable farming incentive (SFI) which pays farmers ...

The farming sector has been blind-sided by the announcement to close applications to the Sustainable Farming Incentive ...

The UK Government has stopped accepting applications for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme as its full 2024 budget has been allocated. Farmers are angry that they were not consulted about ...

Herefordshire representatives have expressed shock at the Government’s sudden decision yesterday (March 11) to halt new applications to ...

Somerset’s farmers have been “hung out to dry” by a government that neither listens to nor understands rural Britain, MPs ...

A farming leader has slammed the government’s sudden closure of a nature incentive scheme for new applicants as another “huge ...

EXCLUSIVE: A fourth-generation farmer whose land lies under the Heathrow flight path is hoping to catch Keir Starmer's eye ...