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🎙️ Awesome chat with Martin Lines today! 🚜 From DEFRA's payment delays 💷 to nature recovery work 🌱 and the inheritance tax maze 📋 - this is farming reality in 2024! #BritishFarming 🇬🇧 #Budget2024 LINK: soundcloud.com/ferncast/e33-m…

One week left to have your say. The public consultation on the regulatory approach and use of civil sanctions for the Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations 2024 is still open until 10 December. Follow the link below to give us your views. consult.defra.gov.uk/legal-standard…

A really good thread to read set up clearly why we are in the position we are in with ELM and higher tier stewardship. The Nature Friendly Farming Network has been campaigning for a long time that Defra needs to speed up the delivery of the higher tier scheme that rewards farmers and nature recovery

Martin Lines And I should have also said a big thank you to Hill Top Farm and Nature Friendly Farming Network for contributing to our press release on the analysis eciu.net/media/press-re…

Really productive few days in Westminster this week meeting MPs, Ministers and enjoyed meeting @LauraKyrkeSmith - such a positive conversation about fairer supply chains, supporting farm diversification, and peer-to-peer learning. Plenty to reflect on and take forward. 🌾💬

With rumours going around that countryside stewardship payments were being delayed I'm please to see our payment land in our bank account today. Thanks Defra UK RPA and hopefully others will receive theirs soon also.

It's good to see NGOs and others coming out to support nature friendly farming. If Government wants to deliver on its nature and climate targets it will need to be helping farmers do it through public money for public goods.

The Methane “Keep Up the Momentum” report out today!. I gave evidence to Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee It’s great to see key recommendations included: improving animal health, better slurry handling, integrating methane goals into ELM & clearer farmer focused policies publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldse…

Farming has to adapt - extreme weather, rising costs, and climate pressures are making it harder. On our farm, we’re working with ADM Agriculture Ltd and others to improve soil 🌱, protect wildlife 🦉, and keep farming sustainable. More here 👇

With lots of discussion around methane I’ve shared my thoughts in Farmers Guardian. While these additives may offer solutions, we need to consider their wider impacts on soil health, farming systems, and consumer trust. A more holistic approach is needed farmersguardian.com/blog/4387653/m…

Regenerative wheat growers will be paid up to £200 per hectare as part of a new deal between four water companies farminguk.com/news/regenerat…

My latest opinion piece in the CPM Magazine Nature Natters: Building bridges cpm-magazine.co.uk/opinion/nature…

Our CEO, Martin Lines responds to Steve Reeves speech at OFC: “Focusing solely on food production risks undermining long term food security. If we don't put the environment and nature at the heart of farming, food security will be in peril”. Read here:🔗 rb.gy/gl1wb8

Great lunch at today’s #ORFC with Daniel Zeichner. Encouraging to hear his commitment: “Nature-friendly farming is the direction we want to go… We won’t cut back on ELMs - you’re winning the argument.” 😄

Watch @nffnuk The Wildlife Trusts event on “Are our farms future proof?” great panel & audience discuss if UK food & farming is prepared to adapt to changing climate & role that nature can play in supporting farm businesses to be more resilient #ORFC25 #OFC25 youtube.com/live/wKSWRl5

Looking forward to hosting this on our farm. 👇 Cambridgeshire Hedgelaying Association Competition 08/02/2025 9-2pm Free entry A small, local competition covering the South of England style only. To enter, please email [email protected]

This is a useful video from the RPA 👇 Management of Hedgerows Regulations (2024) youtu.be/rRofcKyZgEg?si… via YouTube

Great podcast on natural capital markets and how they can support farmers, with our CEO, Martin Lines, as one of the speakers. Definitely worth a listen!

Today I'm at a hedgelaying competition (as a spectator!) in Cambridge on Martin Lines farm They're laying a young maiden hedge. This will thicken it right out from the base, make it a lot more robust, better for wildlife etc Also a great time to get those damn spirals removed

In this new blog, Country Land & Business Assn adviser Lucy Charman outlines how establishing new ponds and hedges can enhance nature, and the funding available to farmers for such projects: cla.org.uk/south-east-new… @WoodlandTrust CPRE The countryside charity Wild Oxfordshire Trust for Oxfordshire's Environment NatureSpace Partnership South Downs National Park #CLA