Carbon charging is a huge cost opportunity for UK agriculture

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Farmer Martin Lines, chair of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, puts forward the case for a robust payment framework to incentivise carbon sequestration in UK agriculture

The UK farming landscape is currently undergoing a seismic shift. More so than any other sector of the UK economy, agriculture will look substantially different after Brexit. The new Agriculture and...

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