As our 400 farmers and landowners across the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge will know, DEFRA issued a Press Release at the beginning of the New Year which advised farmers that they will receive increased payments for protecting and enhancing nature and delivering sustainable food production under the Government's Environmental Land Management schemes,

Today's Guardian outlines the comprehensive overhaul of farming subsidies and directs readers to funding for up to 280 different actions that protect the environment; from conserving hedgerows to maintaining peatlands.

CLICK HERE to read 'Post-Brexit Farming Subsidies Revealed' – The Guardian 26 January 2023.

CLICK HERE to read the DEFRA update also published today.