Gove sets out ‘once-in-a-generation’ vision for sustainable farming

Rachel Salvidge
Published on: 27 Feb 2018

Farmers will get subsidies based on the environmental improvements they make rather than the size of the land they manage under the environment secretary’s new proposals

Cows grazing in a field
Farmers will receive subsidies for environmental enhancement

Farmers and landowners will receive subsidies based on enhancing the environment and investing in sustainable food production rather than the amount of land they farm under DEFRA’s new plans.

The plans, published for consultation on 27 February, take the form of an agricultural command paper and set out DEFRA’s “once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape the future of English farming and the environment”. 

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