May 2021 – The Farming Blog

Watch: Harry's farming test and trial story

Graham Higgins, 27 May 2021 - Conversations we're having, environmental land management schemes, Ways to get involved

Farmers like Harry Baker Cresswell are helping us to shape the future of farming in England. In this video, Harry explains what it was like working with Defra to test and trial land management plans. He shows us around Preston Mains Farm and talks about the improvements he will make in his own land management …

Interest in the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme pilot

Tom Lewis and Karen Brash, 20 May 2021 - Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot, Things we're doing, Things we've learned

In March, we invited farmers to express interest in taking part in the first Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot. In this post, we'd like to share the response and what we’ll do next.

Call for views: leaving the sector and delinked payments

Alastair Walton, 19 May 2021 - Ways to get involved

We want to offer farmers in England the option to leave the sector with a lump sum payment. We also plan to delink Direct Payments from the land. Today we launch a consultation on our proposals. In this post, I’ll give an overview.

In conversation with a soil health pioneer

Janet Hughes and The Team, 11 May 2021 - Conversations we're having, Future Farming Podcast

Gabe Brown is this month's podcast guest. The American soil health pioneer and agricultural influencer talks to Janet Hughes about education in farming, shortening supply chains and the six principles of soil health.