Farmers and the environment will benefit from work to achieve net zero, says Joe Stanley. The year 2040 may seem a long way off. But it will soon come around and, by then, UK agriculture should be approaching our collective net-zero target set by NFUpresident Minette Batters at the Oxford Farming Conference in 2019.The NFU represents some 60,000 UK farming businesses, and there remains a good deal of scepticism, even among its members, about this ambition. But the reality is that the UK government has already enshrined a national target of 2050 in law.
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