Hill farmers, who are among England’s poorest, face an “outsized” hit to livelihoods from delays to new farming schemes, a think tank has warned. Efforts to tackle climate change, restore nature and ...

Farmers say they feel abandoned as thousands of long-running nature scheme payments are set to end. According to a Freedom of Information request by the National Farmers' Union (NFU), 5,830 ...

Defra has confirmed that applications for Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship (CS) are due to open this week, with a supposedly simpler online application process. More than 1,500 farm businesses and ...