Subscribers Only 28 November 2018 BPS Payments 2018 Payments for the 2018 BPS are due to commence from 1st December. In England it is possible to check to To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 28 November 2018 Welsh BPS 2020 Lesley Griffiths, Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs has announced the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) will remain To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 21 November 2018 Whole Wales Approach to Nitrate Pollution Lesley Griffiths, Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs has announced new regulations will come into force in Wales To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 21 November 2018 Scottish Joint Venture Hub NFU Scotland launched its new Joint Venture Hub at AgriScot on Wednesday 21st November. The Hub is a platform to To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 21 November 2018 Committee on Climate Change UK agriculture and food should be fundamentally reformed to help combat climate change. This is the message from a report by To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 16 November 2018 Brexit Withdrawal Agreement On 14th November, after ‘thousands’ of hours of negotiations, the UK and the EU finally reached an accord over the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 13 November 2018 Farm Business Income Revised figures from Defra show an improvement in profitability across most sectors in 2017/18. Taken from the Farm Business Survey To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 7 November 2018 2018 BPS Payments England The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has announced the payment levels under the 2018 BPS for England. As previously forecast, To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 29 October 2018 Budget 2018 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, presented the 2018 Budget on the 29th October. The timing was unusual, being To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 29 October 2018 Scottish Agriculture Bill Amendments The Scottish Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy, Fergus Ewing, has written to Michael Gove suggesting a number of amendments To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 25 October 2018 No Deal Brexit Preparations NAO Report on No Deal Readiness On 24th October, the National Audit Office (NAO) released its latest report on the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 24 October 2018 Brexit Negotiations In recent days, it has been reported that the Brexit negotiations are entering their final phases with respect to the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 23 October 2018 National Parks Michael Gove and Julian Glover are inviting the public to have their say on the future of our National Parks To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 October 2018 Welsh BPS Loan Scheme As previously reported, Wales is making a nationally funded loan scheme available for those that do not receive their 2018 To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 October 2018 Review of Allocation of Farm Support 2020-2022 Michael Gove has announced a review of how agricultural funding should be distributed fairly between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 15 October 2018 Small Grants Scheme Defra has confirmed that the Countryside Productivity Small Grants Scheme will now open for a further round of applications in To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 10 October 2018 Agriculture Bill Progress The Agriculture Bill received its second reading in the House of Commons on the 10th October. MPs voted to approve To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 4 October 2018 Scottish BPS Payments Scottish Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, has announced that the first tranche of 2018 BPS loan payments are underway and To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 4 October 2018 Farm Business Grant Wales The Welsh Government has confirmed that the deadline for applications to the Farm Business Grant has been extended until 26th To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 4 October 2018 New Defra Minister A new Minister has joined the Defra team. David Rutley, MP for Macclesfield, joins as a Parliamentary Under Secretary. He To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 1 October 2018 Scottish Brexit Task Force Fergus Ewing, Rural Economy Secretary for Scotland, has announced plans to establish a Task Force to produce measures which will To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 1 October 2018 Financial Discipline Reimbursement Defra has announced the latest Financial Discipline Mechanism (FDM) reimbursement rate is 1.310%. Any farmer with a 2017 BPS claim To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 1 October 2018 BPS Conversion Rate 2018 BPS payments for 2018 will be converted at a rate of €1 = £0.89281. This is 0.2% lower than last year’s To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 28 September 2018 Budget Date 2018 The Government has announced that the date of the Budget will be brought forward so that it does not clash To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
