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TENANTS have been warned to be on their guard, with rewilding the new ‘landowner craze’.

TENANTS have been warned to be on their guard, with rewilding the new landowner craze.

Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party Sir Ed Davey has called on the Government to appoint a cross-departmental minister to address the needs of rural communities.

Further fears farmland is being put at risk from tree-planting have been raised after commercial forestry values rose by 15 per cent over the past year.

Wheat is successfully being produced in an indoor vertical farm using no soil or pesticides and less water when compared with conventional methods.

Upto 1,000 hectares of Oxfordshire agricultural land is set to make way for a giant solar farm that could sit amid community allotments and bee hives, it has been revealed.

An increase in agroforestry is essential to meet nature and climate targets, while securing long-term food production, a new report from the Woodland Trust has shown.

An increase in agroforestry is essential to meet nature and climate targets, while securing long-term food production, a new report from the Woodland Trust has shown.

The need to achieve global sustainable food production while addressing the ongoing climate emergency took centre stage at COP 27’s Adaptation and Agriculture Day.

Farmers have been told to ignore flood warnings ‘at their peril’ as the UK gears up for another winter of extreme weather which could see a repeat of the devastating storms that ripped through rural communities last February.