Conservation link to 3bn farm cash?

30 March 1998

Conservation link to £3bn farm cash?

AGRICULTURE minister Dr Jack Cunningham will be urged by his advisers to make up to £3 billion in farm payments conditional upon farmers complying with simple environmental rules, such as not cutting hedges during the nesting period.

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  Farmers lose under “extensification premiums” &#151 survey, FWi, today (30 March) – Click here