29 September 2015 Rural Services Helpline The Rural Services Helpline will be introduced on the 30th September. This will provide a single number for all Rural...
29 September 2015 Greening Guidance 2016 The new guidance for Greening in 2016 has been published by the RPA.As we have previously written the rules for...
29 September 2015 Dairy Farm Profitability – Sept ’15 As UK milk prices have continued to slide during the summer, Andersons have updated their Friesian Farm Model to illustrate the...
29 September 2015 Wage Rates New National Minimum Wage rates apply across the UK from 1st October, previous rates are shown in brackets; Workers aged...
28 September 2015 Cross Compliance Breaches 2014 The RPA has released its cross-compliance statistics for 2014. The number of failures has increased by almost 50% since the...
25 September 2015 Crisis Aid Allocated English dairy farmers will receive an average payment of £1,820 as a result of the EU crisis aid. The UK's...
24 September 2015 NI Bans GM The Northern Ireland Executive has followed the lead of the Scottish Government in banning the cultivation of GM crops in...
22 September 2015 Dual Use and CSS DEFRA has finally confirmed how 'dual use' will be dealt with under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS). Dual use will...
21 September 2015 CLA Drops Game Fair The CLA will no longer run the Game Fair. The 2016 event at Ragley Hall in Warwickshire will not go...
21 September 2015 Extra Commons Entitlements Those who have claimed the SPS over common land may be eligible for additional entitlements and payments. The RPA is now...
18 September 2015 Another Welsh BPS Challenge The Welsh Government faces another legal challenge to its BPS system. This time a group of lowland farmers are set...
16 September 2015 No early BPS as UK crisis aid set UK farmers will not receive an early payment of 2015 BPS. As part of EU moves to address the price slump in...
16 September 2015 Dairy Roundup – Sept ’15 GDT Auction Rises Again There is some hope that global dairy prices may have turned a corner. The latest Global...
15 September 2015 MEPs Reject GM Plans Members of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee have rejected the EU Commissions plans to allow Member States to impose national bans...
9 September 2015 More CSS Details published Even more information has been published on the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS). This includes a number of clarifications and deadline...
9 September 2015 Farm Debt Increases UK farm debt increased by 8.4% to £17.1bn by the end of July 2015. This is the fourth year in...
8 September 2015 Exchange Rates Exchange rates, and especially the £ v € relationship, is one of the key determinants of UK farm profitability. The...
8 September 2015 Badger Culls Approved DEFRA has announced that culls of badgers will take place in three areas this autumn in an effort to control...
8 September 2015 EFA in 2016 There has been a question over whether a field that had been used to grow a 2015 EFA Cover crop could then...
8 September 2015 EU Support Package Announced The EU has announced a €500m support package to help farmers through the current slump in prices. Most of this...
8 September 2015 Renewables Support Cut Farm renewables projects could become far less attractive after the Government proposed cutting the amount of support for two key technologies. ...
8 September 2015 Milk Auction Rises Again The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction rose 10.9% at the latest sale on 1st September. This comes after a 14.9%...
8 September 2015 Welsh BPS Payments The Welsh Government produced an online BPS payments calculator at the start of the month. This was to allow farmers...
3 September 2015 NVZ Grassland Derogation Applications for the Grassland derogation under the NVZ open on the 1st October and close at the end of December. ...
