The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Future Farming Resilience Fund will provide support to farmers and land managers as they prepare for the agricultural transition. The fund is available to farming businesses in England that are in receipt of the BPS payments. It opens today, 18 August 2020 and runs until 28 February 2022. For information and to register their interest, farmers can click here.

Ecological survey calendar
The majority of developments, apart from some minor householder projects, require an ecological survey of some kind. Many ecological surveys are seasonally

