14 June 2016Glastir Small Grants Scheme Welsh Cabinet Secretary for the Environment & Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths has announced the new Glastir Small Grants Scheme will...
14 June 2016Hedge & Tree Cutting Derogation Farmers are reminded that the hedge and tree cutting & trimming ban extends until the end of August. But if...
14 June 2016Entitlement Transfers for 2017 With applications (hopefully) all now done for 2016, the industry might want to forget about the BPS for a while. ...
14 June 2016AD FiT Review Support of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) could be cut severely under plans proposed by the government. The Department of Energy and...
9 June 2016Milk Prices Following a price cut announcement from 1st July, Dairy Crest has confirmed it will not be making anymore price reductions...
9 June 2016BPS Payment Deadline Extended The EU Commission has extended the deadline for making 2015 BPS payments. Normally, all money must be issued to farmers...
8 June 2016SMP Intervention Ceiling The EU has proposed a further increase to the SMP intervention ceiling to 350,000 tonnes. This will be the second...
8 June 2016Russian Import Ban Russia's import ban on agricultural products looks likely to be extended until the end of 2017. However, there will be...
8 June 2016Future of Glyphosate Still Unclear The EU Commission has once again failed to obtain Member States' agreement to renew the licence for Glyphosate. After postponing...
1 June 2016Joint Venture Matching Service A new service has launched designed to put together those with land to offer and entrepreneurs keen to start or...
27 May 2016Loam Farm Figures – May ’16 Ahead of the Cereals Event in Cambridgeshire on the 15th and 16th of June, Andersons have updated their Loam Farm arable...
27 May 2016Grain Prospects Crops around the word, and especially near to home in Europe, are growing well and forecasters are projecting healthy yields...
27 May 2016Currency, the Economy, Brexit and Farming With less than a month to go until the Brexit / Bremain decision, polls appear to be gradually shifting in favour...
26 May 2016Land Reform Scotland The Scottish Government's Land Reform Bill was passed by the Parliament on 16th March 2016 and received Royal Assent on...
26 May 2016Agriculture in the UK 2015 The latest edition of 'Agriculture in the UK has been published. Produced by DEFRA's statistics department, it includes a wealthof...
26 May 2016Senova & Wherry Form UK Pulses Senova and Wherry & Sons have joined forces to form UK Pulses. The new company will specialise in the development...
25 May 2016Milk Production and Prices Have we reached the turning point in the dairy market? Some in the industry believe so, but none are forecasting...
25 May 2016Cabinet Secretary for Welsh Agriculture Lesley Griffiths has been appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs in Wales. Under the previous...
25 May 2016Audit Scotland Report on IT System Audit Scotland has published its fourth report on the progress of the Scottish Governments five year 'CAP Futures Programme'. This...
25 May 2016Fracking in Yorkshire Fracking looks set to go ahead in North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire County Council has approved plans, for the controversial method...
25 May 2016Potato Price and Production Data from AHDB Potatoes show prices have risen sharply over the last week. For the week ending 20th May, the...
23 May 2016Glyphosate Renewal Postponed Again The EU has failed again to agree on the re-approval of the popular herbicide glyphosate. Member States were due to...
19 May 2016Scottish Farm Ministers Following the Scottish Parliamentary Elections on the 5th May, there is a new team covering agricultural matters. The Scottish Nationalists...
18 May 2016Ag Chem Takeover It is reported that the German company Bayer is considering a takeover of Monsanto. This further rationalisation of the crop-protection...
