Subscribers Only 18 December 2019 Exchange Rate Impacts Following the General Election on 12th December 2019 which heralded another Conservative administration the Pound has strengthened to £0.83 to To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 18 December 2019 Stewardship 2020 A reminder that, notwithstanding Brexit, the Countryside Stewardship (CS) scheme will be open for applications in 2020, for a 1st To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 18 December 2019 Climate Talks Stall Countries attending the UN Climate Change Summit in Madrid have failed to agree decisive new measures to limit greenhouse gas To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 18 December 2019 BPS Update – Dec ’19 England Latest figures from the RPA show 92.4% of claimants in England received their 2019 BPS by Friday 13th December. To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 December 2019 Arable Markets – Dec ’19 Overall Comment Whilst in some counties over the last week the weather has been harsh, over the country it appears To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 December 2019 LFASS Payments Scottish upland farmers will soon be receiving an advance on their 2019 Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS) payments. The To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 December 2019 Agricultural Wage Rates The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board has recommended that farmworkers wages continue to track the National Living Wage (NLW) from the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 December 2019 Cross Compliance Guidance – Dec ’19 The 2020 edition of the ‘Guide to Cross Compliance in England’ has been published. This can be found at – To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 17 December 2019 Future Relationship Talks With the Withdrawal Agreement now looking certain to pass following the General Election result, the focus is turning to the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 13 December 2019 General Election: Thumping Tory Majority The Conservatives have secured their biggest overall majority since 1987. At the time of writing, they have 364 seats (only To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 12 December 2019 Beef & Sheep Outlook The AHDB has recently released its latest beef & sheep Outlook forecasts. Beef Outlook The levy board expects the beef To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 12 December 2019 Avian Flu – Dec ’19 Avian Influenza was confirmed on a commercial chicken farm in mid-Suffolk on 10th December. According to Defra it is low To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 6 December 2019 Agri-environment Payments – Dec ’19 Readers may recall that 2019 Countryside Stewardship (CS) and Environmental Stewardship (ES) scheme payments are to be made in one To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 6 December 2019 Woodland Carbon Guarantee Scheme Defra has announced the dates for the first online auction under the Woodland Carbon Guarantee (WCaG) scheme. Following the launch To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 28 November 2019 New EU Commission A new European Commission starts work on the 1st December. The Commission is often called the EU’s Civil Service, but To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 28 November 2019 Welsh BPS Retained for 2021 The Welsh Government has confirmed the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) will continue in Wales in 2021, as long as sufficient To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 27 November 2019 Global Grain Markets Harvest 2019 produced mixed results on a global scale, in terms of the main combinable crops. As the months progress, To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 27 November 2019 Weather and 2020 Cropping Weather Data The extraordinarily wet autumn has left as much as half of the planned winter wheat area still undrilled To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 27 November 2019 NZ Carbon Emissions Farmers in New Zealand have been given five years to cut their carbon emissions, otherwise penalties will be imposed. The To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 27 November 2019 2019 BPS Payments With payments due to commence on 2nd December (the 1st is a Sunday), one piece of information was lacking in To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 26 November 2019 Dairy Update – Nov ’19 The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) average price index experienced good gains in November, rising by 3.7% and 1.7% in the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 25 November 2019 Election Manifestos and Farming Ahead of the General Election on Thursday 12th December the main Parties have all published their manifestos. Although farming is To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 25 November 2019 Loam Farm: Cropping Changes Like many real-life farms across the country, Andersons’ Loam Farm is also having to deal with the effects of the To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
Subscribers Only 25 November 2019 Meat Markets Beef Farmgate beef prices have been disappointing all year, only going above the five-year average for a brief spell in To access this post, you must subscribe to our bulletin (90-day free trial available) Professional Update Bulletin
