More than 150 farms in England have been caught illegally taking too much water from rivers, lakes and underground sources, a ...

The three largest environmental incentives programs in the farm bill — the Conservation Reserve Program, the Conservation Stewardship Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program — ...

There are more than 100,000 farm holdings in England, covering 22 million acres in total. But the Defra data show just 2,568 very large farms own or manage 5.6 million acres.

A working land-use framework would make it less likely "high-quality farmland" will be lost to housebuilding or energy projects, Defra said. About 70% of England's land is used for farming.

Like many other New England farms affected by climate change, his 150 acres also suffered from excessive rain and unpredicted frosts. “But if you compare how [others] ...

Farmland prices in England fell by 3.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, the largest quarterly decline since 2008, weighed partly by uncertainty ahead of the June 23 referendum on ...

New England Farm Workers Council is getting out of the commercial real estate business, concentrating on housing and has already sold two of the 13 properties in Springfield, Holyoke and ...

The answer is surprisingly encouraging. Not all New England farmers abandoned the land when the railroad delivered a veritable flood of cheap grain from the Midwest in the years after the Civil War, ...

A new study co-authored by environmental studies professor Brian Donahue, a New England forestry and farming historian, finds that New England is losing 65 acres of forest per day to land conversion..