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British farmers must dig for victory once again: Our island is blessed with good soil and plentiful rainfall – which is why, as food prices soar, we should remember the history lesson that self-sufficiency is vital, writes JAMIE BLACKETT

EU looks to ramp up grain production as Ukraine war rages. Farmers in Europe could be told to plough up land devoted to environmental schemes and grow more grain as the crisis in Ukraine continues to worsen.

Newmarket racing community pledges to fight proposals for new solar farm. "If Newmarket wants to remain the world centre of horseracing it can't afford to have Sunnica as its neighbour".

Meteoric growth in new solar farm planning in UK sees pipeline reach a staggering 37GW

The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, which supports solar power in brownfield sites, has criticised Sunnica for pursuing its plans through the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) regime, saying “this risks squeezing local views and scrutiny out of the decision-making process”.

Blinded By The Sun: Why Unregulated Development Of Solar Farms Will Be The Death Of UK Agriculture, Food Security And Rural Communities

How CAN this be a green scheme? It's some of Britain's most fertile land - yet there's a plan to cover 2,800 acres of it with ugly solar panels. Locals are in uproar but, thanks to the mania for Net Zero, there may be little they can do

MATT HANCOCK: Why I am protesting against the UK's largest solar farm that will pump out more carbon over its lifetime than it saves - and turn Suffolk villages into industrial zones

Light … or blight? Anger rises at plan for Britain’s biggest solar farm. A proposed new £600m solar farm in eastern England – covering an area eight times bigger than Hyde Park in central London – faces opposition over claims it would be a “blight” on the countryside.

The pursuit of Net Zero is already under way, destabilising the National Grid and undermining our industrial competitiveness. It is easy in these times of climate hysteria to lose sight of other things that matter. Like cost. Like fairness. Like personal political risk.

In early 2018, residents in villages across West Suffolk received a large envelope in the mail. “It looked like junk mail,” says resident Denis Field, and as a result, he says many people threw the packet away, not knowing what was inside.
“That was Sunnica’s intention,” Field says.

Farmers Guardian and scores of others across the agriculture sector have long argued that the greening of support payments poses an inherent threat to food security in this country.

The Solar Campaign Alliance has recently established a parliamentary petition to ask Boris Johnson’s government to intervene before the UK loses a critical mass of productive farmland to solar.

Thousands of acres of countryside earmarked for solar farms should be protected until the full environmental impact is clear, ministers are told

Farmers warn Ukraine war will hit UK food prices. UK food prices will rise as a result of the war in Ukraine, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) has warned.

Suffolk County Council opposes 'seriously flawed' Sunnica solar farm plans near Newmarket. Controversial plans for a massive solar farm which would surround several villages near Newmarket are 'seriously flawed', a council has ruled.

I’m beginning to wonder why Suffolk has been chosen for not one but two white elephant energy projects. What have we done to deserve this? An even more pertinent question is ‘What the hell does this technologically-illiterate government think it is doing?’

Link to YouTube film made by Devon CPRE with actor John Nettles about the numerous solar farms in Devon. This illustrates the negative impact of solar farms in the 100 acre size range, let alone the 2,000+ acres that Sunnica are proposing to develop.

Dorset (Gillingham) SOLAR farm big enough to power Shaftesbury and Gillingham has been rejected – to protect the site of a former royal palace and deer park.

A series of letters raising concerns about UK agricultural production

This campaign is a joint venture between resident-driven action groups opposing the rapidly growing issue of large-scale solar developments on UK farmland driven by a lack of clarity from conflicting government policies.