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The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee has urged Ministers to treat the UK abattoir network as a strategic national asset.

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee has urged Ministers to treat the UK abattoir network as a ‘strategic national asset’.

The Welsh Government has set out plans to introduce its new Sustainable Farming Scheme in January 2025.

The GMB union has called on the Government to change its approach after offering a miserly pay offer to the Environment Agency (EA).

The GMB union has called on the Government to change its approach after offering a ‘miserly’ pay offer to the Environment Agency (EA).

The Government has announced that funding to help English farmers tackle water and air pollution on their land will be doubled.

Farmers have raised concerns about the UK Government’s new tree planting grant scheme, warning it is ‘deeply unattractive’.

Farmers have raised concerns about the UK Governments new tree planting grant scheme, warning it is deeply unattractive.

Farmers can tap into Defra funding to help them during the seven-year agricultural transition.

Projects to create new woodland, deliver natural flood risk management and improve water quality are among an initial 27 schemes to benefit from a new fund to drive private investment in nature, Defra and Natural England have announced.