News

• 6 May 2022

  Farmers Guardian: Farmers launch first environmental co-operative

  The Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) will cover 40,000ha of farmland in the Avon Valley in Hampshire, and focus on delivering environmental public goods at a landscape scale, as well as […]

• 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 […]

• 3 May 2022

  EFG on Farming Today

  Our lead farmer Robert Shepherd and Teresa Dent, GWCT Chief Executive, both appeared on BBC Farming Today on Radio 4 this morning. If you missed it, you can listen on […]

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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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  27 April 2022

  Podcast: What is the EFG?

  Lead Farmer Robert Shepherd explains the Environmental Farmers Group’s ambitions and what it hopes to achieve for farmers and the environment in the Avon Valley.

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  11 November 2021

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