16 Oct 2025
Image description: A Red Tractor ploughing a field. Image by Tom Fisk / Pexels. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled Red Tractor exaggerated its environmental standards in a recent advert, agreeing with campaign group River Action that the food safety body’s 2023 advert effectively misled the public. The advertised claim The Red Tractor […]
04 Jan 2022
Land-based salmon farming – Norway leads the way – One estimate is that you’d need 10 of these to replace all of Scotland’s marine farms https://salmonbusiness.com/construction-work-to-start-in-spring-2022-on-new-24000-tonnes-land-based-farm/ The salmon farming company Baring Farsund will build the region’s largest land-based facility for post-smolt and harvest-ready fish. When completed, the plant will have an area of more than […]
13 Apr 2021
A selection of useful best practice advice sheets is listed below, developed as part of Pinpoint. Pinpoint Working with farmers and land managers to reduce diffuse pollution from agriculture. PINPOINT is a partnership initiative between The Rivers Trust and Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF). Pinpoint provides training and support to rivers trusts, CSF staff and other relevant organisations […]
16 Feb 2021
Revealed: no penalties issued under ‘useless’ English farm pollution laws Exclusive: Environment Agency has failed to prosecute or fine any of 243 documented violations since 2018 Campaigners have called legislation designed to reduce water pollution caused by agriculture in England “useless” as data reveals there have been no prosecutions or fines issued despite regular documented […]
04 Feb 2020
The UK’s first offshore scallop farm will be trialled off the Yorkshire coast through the use of pioneering and sustainable new methods. Building on the success of reintroducing oysters into the Humber, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is now supporting Scarborough company SeaGrown Ltd in its efforts. The trust will partner with the firm on the project, […]
23 Aug 2017
An article and a video from the Angling Trust highlight the scale of the problem. Whilst the Environment Agency, to their credit, are still highlighting individual prosecutions the sheer scale of the problem has been highlighted by this recent work. The Grenfell effect is probably at work, a combination of a push for quick profit, […]
23 Aug 2017
The chair of Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has warned that efforts to tackle agricultural pollution are not being prioritised in the country. Farming Online July 24th ‘Set up in 2013, Natural Resources Wales combines the functions of the Forestry Commission and Environment Agency in Wales. In an open letter to the Welsh Environment Secretary […]