The NFU has joined forces with more than 50 farming and environment organisations to call on the Chancellor not to cut ...

Nature could be in the firing line as Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives her spring statement in the Commons on Wednesday.

Sir Steve warned “the Thames is in trouble” in the letter to Environment Secretary Steve Reed, and said pollution levels ...

Defra has relaxed some disease controls for Germany following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease near Berlin in January.

Civil servants will be limited to just two taxpayer funded electronic devices after a multi-million-pound splurge on Apple ...

Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are actually being "cooked" in makeshift furnaces causing ...

A CUMBRIAN university professor claims there could still be money in the agricultural pot and calls for more transparency from Defra after ...

Paul Caldwell has announced that he is stepping down as Chief Executive of the Rural Payments Agency and retiring from the Civil Service this summer. Paul has served Defra and the RPA for 40 years, ...

The discovery of a strain of avian influenza in a sheep for the first time should be a reminder to sheep keepers of the importance of biosecurity on holdings with poultry, says the National Sheep ...

The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of influenza of avian origin (H5N1) in a single sheep in Yorkshire ...

LONDON — The United Kingdom reported the first confirmed case of avian influenza found in sheep, announced the country’s ...

Avian influenza (AI) H5N1 has been confirmed in a sheep in the U.K. The country’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural ...