Members Only 3 November 2017 Base Rate Rise – Nov ’17 The Bank of England raised the UK Base Rate to 0.5% on the 2nd November. Some younger readers may not To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 1 November 2017 NFU Leader to Step Aside The NFU of England and Wales will be looking for a new leader come February. The current President, Meurig Raymond, To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 1 November 2017 Additional Countryside Productivity Grants New grant funding is available for farmers in England to improve productivity and add value to farm produce. An extra To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 1 November 2017 Welsh Capital Grants The Farm Business Grant will re-open for applications on the 2nd January 2018. The deadline for completed forms is the To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 30 October 2017 Ex-WTO Chief Weighs in on Brexit Pascal Lamy, the former Director-General of the WTO, spoke at a couple of Brexit-related events in Dublin recently and made To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 October 2017 LAMMA Move The LAMMA farm machinery show will be moving to the NEC in Birmingham from 2019. The upcoming event in January To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 October 2017 Rise in Farm Business Incomes Revised figures from DEFRA show an improvement in profitability across most sectors in 2016/17. Taken from the Farm Business Survey, To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 October 2017 CAP Simplification – Oct ’17 The EU has agreed a further package of rule changes aimed at simplifying the CAP. Contained in the ‘Omnibus Regulation’ To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 October 2017 Welsh Young Farmers Scheme The Welsh Government has announced that £6m of funding will be allocated to help young farmers. The Young Entrants Support To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 25 October 2017 Agriculture in the English Regions DEFRA has published statistical data on agriculture in each of the English regions. This covers the output, costs and profit To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 24 October 2017 Top Fruit Labour A report has just been published that highlights once again how reliant the UK horticultural sector is on EU migrant To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 24 October 2017 Qualified ‘No’ to Brexit Trade Talks For now, the UK and EU Brexit talks will not move on to discuss future trading relationship. EU leaders, meeting To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 24 October 2017 Agriculture White Paper As we wrote back in our June Bulletin, an Agriculture Bill is expected as one of a number of pieces To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 24 October 2017 NFU Support Proposals The NFU of England and Wales is calling for area payments to be maintained in any new Domestic Agricultural Policy To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 23 October 2017 Active Farmer Requests EU Auditors have asked the RPA to look at the issue of Active Farmer more closely – to undertake some To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 23 October 2017 CAP Reform – Oct ’17 The EU is looking into compulsory Capping and an overhaul of the current Greening measures in the next round of To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 16 October 2017 AHDB Brexit Report The AHDB has released its latest Horizon modelling report – ‘Brexit Scenarios: An Impact assessment’. The report analyses the impact To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 12 October 2017 Future Farm Support A report by the Natural Capital Committee (NCC) has said that public funding for agriculture should be closely targeted towards To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 6 October 2017 Brexit TRQ Deal The EU and UK have reached an understanding on how existing Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) should be treated after Brexit. To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 6 October 2017 Brexit Policy Transition The NFU has set out a timetable for the transition to a new ‘Domestic Agricultural Policy’ (DAP). This foresees a To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 5 October 2017 Modern Limited Duration Tenancy The Modern Limited Duration Tenancy (MDLT) will replace the Limited Duration Tenancy (LDT) as from 30th November 2017. The MLDT To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 September 2017 Scottish Sheep Scheme Extended The deadline for applications to the Scottish Uplands Sheep Support Scheme (SUSSS) has been extended to the 30th November. Originally, To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 September 2017 2017 Euro Conversion Rate Payments under the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme will be converted at a rate of €1 = 89.47p (subject to confirmation To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 26 September 2017 BPS Conversion 2017 The conversion rate for the 2017 BPS is likely to be around 5% better than 2016, and the most favourable To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
