Members Only 5 August 2019 Single Agri Environment Payments All agri-environment payments in England are to move to a once-yearly basis. Up to now there has been a 75% To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 5 August 2019 CS Facilitation Fund – Aug ’19 Defra has opened another round of the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund on the 5th August. £2.5m is to be made To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 31 July 2019 Brexit Aid Package? It is reported that the Government is planning a £500m scheme to buy-up finished livestock in the event of a To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2019 Sterling Weakness Over the last few days Sterling has weakened against the Euro as fears of a No-Deal Brexit have increased. The To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 July 2019 Boris and Agriculture Boris Johnson finally got the job he has been chasing for so long when he became Prime Minister on the To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 July 2019 Conservation Covenants The Government plans to introduce legislation to create conservation covenants in England. This announcement came in a Policy Statement to To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 July 2019 Advance Scottish BPS Payments Scottish farmers will once again receive an advance on their BPS payments. The Scottish Government has announced that loans of To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 July 2019 RSA Food Report A new report has recently been published making recommendations on how food, farming and the countryside need to change to To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 July 2019 Theresa Villiers Becomes Defra Sectretary Defra has a new leader in the form of Theresa Villiers. Following his appointment as Prime Minister on the 24th To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 17 July 2019 New EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been appointed as the new President of the EU Commission – one of the most To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 15 July 2019 Welsh Policy Consultation The Welsh farming industry has another chance to comment on post-Brexit support policy. As we wrote last month, a further To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 15 July 2019 Sector Productivity The productivity of English lowland beef and sheep farms dropped by 21% between 1990/91 and 2017/18. Livestock farms in the To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 15 July 2019 Defra Chief Scientist Defra has appointed a new Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA), Professor Gideon Henderson. Professor Henderson has been head of Earth Sciences To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 9 July 2019 Countryside Productivity Small Grant Scheme – Jul ’19 The second application window for the Countryside Productivity Small Grants (CPSG) has finally opened. Initially, we expected the second round To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 8 July 2019 Inheritance Tax Review Gifts could become exempt from Inheritance Tax (IHT) after five years, rather than the current seven, if the recommendations of To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 2 July 2019 Food Review Defra has finally published the Terms of Reference of an independent review into the food sector. As we reported back To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 2 July 2019 EU Agrees Mercosur and Vietnam Trade Deals On 28th June, twenty years to the day that negotiations started, the EU and Mercosur reached a political agreement on To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 June 2019 Mercosur Deal The EU and the Mecosur group of South American Countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) look close to concluding a To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 21 June 2019 Race for Next PM – The Final Two At one stage, there were thirteen candidates seeking to become the next Prime Minister (and leader of the Conservative party) To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 20 June 2019 Brexit – North-South Cooperation Areas On 20th June, details were released of an exercise which outlined the scale of the areas of north-south cooperation on To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 20 June 2019 Agri-Environment Payments – Jun ’19 Defra has announced outstanding agri-environment payments will be made by the end of July. Our article of 18th June explained To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 20 June 2019 Net Zero UK Carbon In one of her final acts as Prime Minister, Theresa May has set down an ambitious new climate change target To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 19 June 2019 Fertiliser Prices Prices for nitrogen fertiliser have opened the new season around £30 per tonne higher than in 2018. Ammonium nitrate for June/July To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 18 June 2019 Environmental Scheme Payments Update Environmental Stewardship (ES) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) payment delays continue. Some claimants have still not received their 2017 ES payments. To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
