Farmer Focus: Diversifying crop rotations to a manageable limit

Recent reassurances from Defra about funding for environmental stewardship over the next four years has been enough for us to put an application in for the mid-tier scheme and a woodland creation plan for the land that we had purchased in 2015. The decision was made easier for us since we had already done the groundwork with the assistance of Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) last year. While Natural England accepted them, the RPA computer couldn’t handle the applications because of issues […]