Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) say Defra must provide help to pay for additional slurry costs incurred by new environmental rules

The association has again pressed the need for Defra to provide grant aid to English farmers who are to be required to provide new slurry storage capacity under new Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) Regulations.
Speaking at the South West Dairy Show, TFA National Vice-Chairman Stephen Wyrill said “It is simply not acceptable that farmers in Scotland and Northern Ireland are to be given grant aid towards new slurry storage capacity when English farmers will be required to meet the cost fully themselves. Dairy farmers will be particularly badly hit by these new regulations. All firms producing dairy costings are forecasting a major downturn in the fortunes of dairy farmers over the next couple of years not least because of the extra costs that will be associated with meeting nitrate vulnerable zone regulations.”