New survey shows just 27% of all waste crime incidents reported
Landowners and farmers are being urged to help the Environment Agency stop waste crime as new research shows only 12% ...
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NFU helps to secure water access for dozens of farmers
More than 150 farmers and growers in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire will be able to resume abstraction after the NFU ...
Potato farmer fined for soil pollution
David Mitchell, a potato farmer from Hillcommon in Taunton, Somerset, has been prosecuted by the Environment Agency for causing silt, ...
Dry weather aids potato planting but could reduce yield
The European Commission (EC) has said that potato planting in the North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) region has progressed well ...
The Vegetable Farmer – April opinion
One issue we face as a vegetable industry is how to make our products exciting or even ‘sexy’ to consumers. ...
Reviving England’s polluted rivers
At the close of 2023, Defra asked the British Ecological Society to bring together nearly 40 experts, to collate expert ...
Dry spring makes abstraction controls more likely
Prospects for irrigation across England this summer have deteriorated because of dry weather in March and April, says the Environment ...
