Members Only 29 July 2024 Future Support: Wales The Welsh Government has given more detail to farmers as to which schemes which will be available in 2025. Readers To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 Biodiversity Net Gain The Planning Advisory Service (PAS) has made available a range of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) templates. The PAS, a branch To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 18 July 2024 Kings Speech The new Labour administration set out its legislative priorities in the King’s Speech on 17th July. Over 35 potential Bills To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 12 July 2024 English TIFF Defra has released figures for English farm profits. These show a slightly different picture to the UK figures we reported To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 10 July 2024 New Government Following its landslide victory in the General Election on 4th July, the new Labour administration is starting to bed-in. In To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 21 June 2024 Carbon Calculator Harmonisation Three of the main carbon calculators for farming have agreed to harmonise their methodologies. The Farm Carbon Toolkit, Cool Farm To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 20 June 2024 Scottish Agriculture Bill The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill was passed into law by the Scottish Parliament on 18th June. Royal Assent To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 17 June 2024 General Election 2024 The main political parties have set out their rural policies ahead of Election Day on July 4th. Below is a To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 13 June 2024 SFI 2024 Factsheet Details of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2024 offer are now available (see earlier article for more details). A controlled roll To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 10 June 2024 Farm Profits UK farming made surprisingly good profits in 2023 according to Defra. The Department has recently released figures for Total Income To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 10 June 2024 SFI 2023 Closing Defra has announced the SFI 2023 will close for new applications at midnight on Monday 10 June (today). However, it To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 30 May 2024 SFI 2024 In our previous article on 22nd May (see https://abcbooks.co.uk/expanded-sfi-offer-for-2024/) which reported on the expanded 2024 offer, we said the 23 To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 28 May 2024 Farming Recovery Fund Further to our article of 11th April (see https://abcbooks.co.uk/flood-relief-2/), Defra has opened up the Farming Recovery Fund to more farmers. To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 28 May 2024 BPS Delinked Payments Defra has announced BPS balance payments will be made from 1st September this year instead of December. It has said To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 23 May 2024 General Election The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has called a UK General Election for the 4th July. We wait to see what To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 23 May 2024 Farm Business Management Practices Defra has recently released statistics on Business Management practices on farms. The information is taken from the Farm Business Survey To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 22 May 2024 Ending Agri-environment Agreements Defra has released information on how and when existing Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreement holders can To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 22 May 2024 Organic Farming The area of UK land managed according to organic principles fell in 2023 compared with 2022. Latest figures released on To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 22 May 2024 EU / NZ Trade Deal On 1st May 2024, the EU-NZ Free Trade Agreement (FTA) entered into force. This follows the initial announcement of the To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 22 May 2024 Expanded SFI Offer for 2024 Expanded Offer Defra has released details of the expanded SFI 2024 offer. In total there will be 102 actions available. To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 22 May 2024 N.I. Access to UK TRQs Northern Ireland food businesses will have easier access to imported products as a result of a new agreement. The UK To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 22 May 2024 Carbon Benchmarking The AHDB is to undertake research into the true carbon footprint of farming. This will calculate net emissions from farming To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 17 May 2024 Food Security Defra has published new data on the UK’s food security. This shows that the UK has a high degree of To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 17 May 2024 Farming Summit The second ‘farm-to-fork’ summit took place in Downing Street on the 14th May. This saw a number of policy annoucements To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
