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    EFG joins Ministerial visit to Allerton Project

    EFG Chairman Rob Shepherd and Tom Vacher of Natural Capital Advisory joined the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in welcoming Defra ministers Daniel Zeichner and Mary Creagh to the GWCT […]

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    2025 membership window open

    As of 1 April, the 2025 membership window is now open to become an EFG 2025 member. Those who have expressed an expression of interest (EoI) who would now like […]

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    EFG feeds back to EFRA Committee

    Today, Environmental Farmers Group joined Peakland Environmental Farmers and Natural Capital Advisory to give some key messages to an EFRA Committee event held in Westminster on the Land Use Framework. The main messages that […]

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: EFG offers solutions for Humber businesses

    EFG offers solutions for Humber businesses

    Split into regional areas, EFG offers a Membership of progressive farmers who are signed up to deliver EFG’s environmental objectives by trading natural capital through a professional single point of […]

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Environmental Farmers Group delivers landmark nutrient offset opportunity

    Environmental Farmers Group delivers landmark nutrient offset opportunity

    EFG Member, the Longford Estate, has delivered one of the largest nutrient mitigation projects in the Hampshire Avon river catchment. It will provide much needed phosphate credits to unlock the […]

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    A buzz of optimism at EFG National AGM

    Glorious sunshine welcomed over 70 farmers to Upper Cranbourne Farm, near Winchester, on 6 February for our first National AGM. EFG Chairman Rob Shepherd kicked off the meeting with an […]

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: EFG launches Knowledge Hub

    EFG launches Knowledge Hub

    EFG is pleased to announce the launch of its ‘EFG Knowledge Hub’. In collaboration with the GWCT Allerton Project with funding from the Golden Bottle Trust, we will be bringing […]

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    EFG Chairman wins Farmers Weekly 2024 ‘Game Changer of the Year’

    Huge congratulations for EFG’s Chairman Rob Shepherd, who last night won Farmers Weekly 2024 ‘Game Changer of the Year’. Rob has played an enormous role in steering EFG from its […]

  • EFG Chair nominated for Farmers Weekly Game Changers Award

    Rob Shepherd, chairman of the Environmental Farmers Group (EFG), has been nominated for our special Game Changers Award, which will be announced at Farmers Weekly Awards on 3 October 2024. In an […]

  • Thumbnail for the post titled: Join us at Groundswell 2024 on June 26 & 27

    Join us at Groundswell 2024 on June 26 & 27

    A note to say that a number of the EFG team and board will be attending Groundswell next week on both the Wednesday and Thursday. Do get in touch if […]