News

• 24 November 2022

  Video: Farmer-led conservation of the River Ebble

  The River Ebble is a chalk stream, which flows through the beautiful farmed landscape of the Chalke Valley in Wiltshire on its journey to join the River Avon near Salisbury. […]

• 11 November 2022

  EFG Second Members Meeting

  Last week, EFG held its second Member’s meeting at the The Stalls, Sutton Mandeville. Nearly 90 farmers, agents and industry players came to share knowledge on natural capital. The EFG […]

• 8 September 2022

  EFG Board Member Teresa Dent CBE provides information to Parliament

  On Tuesday, Teresa Dent CBE – EFG Board member and Chief Executive of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) – was invited to give the GWCT’s verdict on the […]

• 1 September 2022

  The EFG welcomes new members of the support team

  We are very pleased to announce that Natural Capital Advisory Ltd (NCA) has recruited two new team members to help deliver EFG’s growth. Digby Sowerby joins NCA as Operations Officer […]

• 22 July 2022

  Farmers Weekly: Cluster farmer models hold key to future ‘green’ income

• 1 July 2022

  NFU President and EFG member champions the benefits of the group at Groundswell

  At the recent regenerative agriculture show, Groundswell, Minette Batters took part in a debate on policy with Secretary of State George Eustice. The debate was chaired by Baroness Rosie Boycott […]

• 5 May 2022

  Nutrient Neutrality: Our letter to The Times

  Sir, You report that a directive from Natural England demanding ‘nutrient neutrality’ or no net increase in river pollution by nitrates and phosphates as a result of housing development has […]

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  3 May 2022

  Biodiversity recovery, clean water in the River Avon, and net zero farming by 2040 – new Environmental Farmers Group sets out its bold ambitions

  Nature will be protected and enhanced on an unprecedented scale, with the formation of a pioneering new landscape-scale partnership of farmers in the Hampshire Avon Valley. Expected to cover over […]

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  11 November 2021

  Lord Benyon addresses the first gathering of the new EFG on the banks of the Wylye