News Archive

• 24 October 2023

  EFG BNG approach highlighted in Natural England blog

  This blog was originally posted by Natural England How are land managers embracing biodiversity net gain (BNG) while working towards their green strategies? In this guest blog, Digby Sowerby, Operations […]

• 11 October 2023

  Cranborne Chase: What’s in the Wylye

  The Wylye Valley Farmers are a farmer cluster group with 34 members covering over 12,000 hectares. They operate in the catchment of the River Wylye which is a nationally important chalk river […]

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  11 September 2023

  EFG holds Fifth Members’ Meeting

  Yesterday, EFG held its Fifth Members’ Meeting at Codford Village Hall, Wiltshire. Over 80 people attended the event (also held virtually) with a range of interesting speakers. EFG Chair Rob […]

• 4 September 2023

  EFG farmers lead project to tackle water pollution in the River Wylye

  The Wylye Valley Farmer Cluster, based on the River Wylye in Wiltshire are progressing well in their project on testing water pollution. Supported by Environmental Farmers Group, the farmers are […]

• 1 September 2023

  EFG voices opinion on nutrient neutrality amendment

  Earlier this week, the government announced an amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill. This amendment would mean that housing developers would not be required to mitigate the additional […]

• 17 August 2023

  Large-scale farmers’ group is helping developers unlock house building

  The Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) has been set up by a group of farmers in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset to deliver highly assured, co-ordinated environmental projects on a catchment scale.  The cooperative […]

• 11 August 2023

  EFG responds to misleading Times article on farming’s impact on water

  Today, the Times has published a letter from EFG in response to the Times’ misleading article written on Tuesday 8 August on the nutrient pollution impact farming has on water courses […]

• 18 July 2023

  Watch EFG in action at Groundswell 2023

• 3 July 2023

  EFG Speaking at Groundswell 2023

  EFG were very pleased to sit on two panel discussions this week at Groundswell 2023. Gavin Fauvel, EFG Board Member, spoke on Wednesday alongside Helen Edmundson (Deputy Director, Green Finance […]

• 21 June 2023

  World famous chalk streams will benefit from expanded Environmental Farmers Group

  31 farmers of the Test and Itchen catchments in Hampshire are set to join the 147 neighbouring farmers already supporting the Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) making 178 farms, covering 81,344 […]