After a frantic six-hour scramble for SFI nature payments provoked fury from farmers, Defra says it is weighing up changes to ...

Access to more than £230m in government-led, sustainable farming funding was available for just six hours before it closed, with future funding streams not available until next year.

A total of £79 million has been set aside by the Government to help boost nature recovery, Defra Secretary of State Dame ...

The second application window for Defra's Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI26) has closed after the £233m funding pot was allocated ...

The Countryside Alliance, Aim to Sustain partners and the GWCT publish guidance on Defra's 106-question gamebird call for ...

Defra is considering changes to how farmers access the Sustainable Farming Incentive in 2027 after this year’s main application window filled within six hours.

The UK's Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has put out a pipeline notice for the provision of "Future Hosting and Storage Services" worth £226.8m ($306.06m). According to the ...

The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its £312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to ...

The UK's Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has put out a Prior Information Notice for future hosting and storage services. In a notice published on August 23, Defra shared ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has released fresh guidance on penalties as sweeping changes to bin collections for every household in England loom just weeks away. Under the ...

Defra says England’s heather burning rules stand despite research showing cutting adds fine fuel to moorland litter, and confirms a wildfire study.

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