16 December 2015 Livestock Farmer Innovation Grants The Farmer Innovation Grant has opened for applications from beef and sheep farmers in England. The AHDB will fund groups...
15 December 2015 Facilitation Fund The second round of the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund will open on 18th January 2016 and close on 18th March...
15 December 2015 Rural Development Programmes Approved The EU Commission has completed the adoption of all 118 Rural Development Programmes. EU rural aid funding totals €99.6bn for...
15 December 2015 Processors Apply Beef Movement Penalties The beef industry has called for clarity over penalties being imposed by some abattoirs for cattle being 'moved' too many...
14 December 2015 Flood Recovery Fund Farmers affected by the recent flooding in Cumbria and north Lancashire will be eligible for up to £20,000 of support. ...
14 December 2015 2015 potato crop Potato production in Great Britain will fall by 5.5% for the 2015 season compared to 2014. This is according to...
14 December 2015 Agro Chemical Merger Two of the worlds largest chemical companies, Dow and DuPont are in the advance stages of merger negotiations. If the...
14 December 2015 Tesco Lamb Contract Tesco is investigating whether to introduce a cost-of-production pricing model for some of its lamb supply. This would build on...
14 December 2015 Red Meat Levy Redistribution There may be a redistribution of levy board funding in the beef and sheep sectors as a result of a...
14 December 2015 BPS Payments Update As at the 8th the RPA had made 36,083 English BPS payments. This is some 41.4% of eligible farmers. The...
14 December 2015 AHDB Recommended List 2016/17 Thirty two new cereal and oilseed rape varieties have been added to the 2016/17 AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds Recommended lists, whilst...
7 December 2015 Stocktake Report 2015 AHDB Beef and Lamb (previously Eblex) has released its latest benchmarking figures for English beef and sheep enterprises. The...
7 December 2015 GM Imports Approved Two Monsanto genetically modified maize varieties have been approved for import into the EU. Mon87427 and NK603xT25 may enter the...
7 December 2015 Welsh Red Meat Levy Review A review of Hybu Cig Cymru / Meat Promotion Wales will being in January. The review will focus on the...
4 December 2015 Wales Suspends bTB Vaccinations The Welsh Government has had to suspend its badger vaccination programme due to a worldwide shortage of the vaccine. The...
4 December 2015 Entitlement Transfers There has been an update on the 'Active Farmer' declaration with respect to entitlement transfers. The person receiving entitlements must...
3 December 2015 Milk Production and Prices UK milk production for October stood at at 1,192.8 million litres; 38.1 million litres more than in September. This is...
2 December 2015 GDT Auction Up After three consecutive falls, prices on the GDT milk auction increased at the 1st December sale. The index of products...
2 December 2015 CSS Agreement Offers Applicants to Countryside Stewardship (CSS) may have to start the scheme without having an agreement in place. Natural England had...
30 November 2015 Argentinian Agriculture The election of a new Government in Argentina may seem rather remote from UK farming. However, the ripples from the...
27 November 2015 BPS Payments Begin The RPA has announced that it will be paying around 30,000 English farmers thier 2015 Basic Payment on 1st December. ...
27 November 2015 Farm Profits DEFRA's farm profitability figures continue to surprise. The Department has just released an update to its Total Income from Farming...
27 November 2015 UK Farm Balance Sheet The UK farming industry increased its net worth by almost 6% in the 2014 calendar year according to DEFRA statistics. ...
26 November 2015 Spending Review DEFRA faces a 15% real-terms cutin its budget over the next 5 years. This is the result of the settlement...
