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Spending review 2025: Cutting agricultural budget could be 'catastrophic' for nature, farmers and charities warn

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The National Trust and RSPB have joined forces with farmers to warn the government that cutting the agricultural budget could be "catastrophic" for nature and rural businesses.

The rural organisations say the Environmental Land Management scheme payments are "critical to the government's statutory targets on environmental improvement" The government shocked farmers in March when it shut down applications for the Sustainable Farming Incentive .

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