Exclusive: Lord Benyon overruled his own experts to allow release of pheasants and partridges in protected sites
NFU told Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that revealing scale of waste could threaten contracts
Exclusive: Government U-turned on vow to abolish deadline for registering paths in England after letter from landowners
Documents seen by openDemocracy show the National Farmers’ Union feared planting more trees would hit land values
