NFU Environment Forum chair Mark Pope said:
“Farming has a key interest in managing and protecting environmental resources alongside the practical challenges of food production. With this in mind, the NFU will be giving careful consideration to any new Environment Bill.
"Farmers manage 70% of the nation’s iconic countryside and are in a unique position to deliver for the environment as long as there are productive and viable businesses – where food is at the heart. Our interests in any new bill will be in how it is framed to support productive agriculture, while protecting our soils, water and wildlife and how it can seek to improve our environmental legislation.”