There has been inaccurate media coverage regarding foot and mouth disease (FMD) controls with reports that it took six or seven days for controls on commercial imports to take effect and “allowed disease to enter the country.”
The government is working closely with the food and drink industry to ensure the public can continue to access the food they need.
In today’s blog, we look at widespread coverage of the government’s new measures to support supermarkets during the Covid-19 outbreak.
A look into our formal response to last year’s consultation on agricultural tenancy law in England
In today’s (18 March) blog we look at Natural England’s declaration of Purbeck Heaths in Dorset as a ‘super’ National Nature Reserve (NNR).
In today’s blog, we look at widespread coverage of calls from retailers that people should continue to shop as they normally would in response to coronavirus.
On Saturday 14 March, newly appointed Forestry Commission Chair Sir William Worsley gave his first interview in the post with the Times.
Today we're announcing that nine organisations have been awarded a share of the government’s £1 million Future Farming Resilience Funding.
In today's blog, we feature a response to the recently-released JNCC report on seabird populations.
In today’s blog, we look at widespread coverage of the government’s new measures to support food retailers increase the frequency of deliveries to their stores in response to the coronavirus.
Today there is widespread media coverage on Defra’s publication of the next stages of its strategy to tackle the damaging animal disease bovine TB.