Defra – Page 2 – Farming

This is us, working in the open

Janet Hughes, 27 November 2020 - Future Farming and Countryside Programme

We're the team working on the Future of Farming programme, which is all about how farming policy will change over the next 7 years.

We'll use this blog to share our work. We'll post regular updates, some about the big, important announcements but mostly about smaller steps we take along the way.

Protecting the health of our trees and plants

Ciska Howarth, 27 November 2020 - Payments to improve tree health

Plants and trees contribute £9 billion every year in social and economic value, they also keep us alive. Our aim is to mitigate and minimise the impact of pests and diseases and improve the capacity of our trees to adapt to changing pressures. In this post, we outline how we plan to do this.