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The EU has announced a €500m support package to help farmers through the current slump in prices.  Most of this...

Farm renewables projects could become far less attractive after the Government proposed cutting the amount of support for two key technologies. ...

Applications for the Grassland derogation under the NVZ open on the 1st October and close at the end of December. ...

The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board has announced rates that apply for the year from 1st October 2015.  The headline rate...

More details on the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) continue to dribble out.  The latest additional information is 'chapter 8' of...

The Scottish Upland Sheep Support Scheme opens for claims on the 1st September.  The scheme has an annual budget of...

First Milk has announced further price drops from 1st September.  The four manufacturing pools will be paid 0.3ppl less than...

After four months of negotiations and bids Monsanto has dropped its attempt to takeover Syngenta.  This is after the Swiss-based company...

Provisional DEFRA statistics have been published for the crop areas in England for 2015.  In line with previous forecasts (see...

A study into the effect of the ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments on flowering crops found that it cost the...

Any recovery in the global dairy market seems to be receding further into the distance.  The respected agricultural analysts at...

The deadline for full applications to the Higher Tier of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) has been extended to the...

Three organisations have come together to publish new guidelines on farm rents in Scotland.  NFU Scotland, Scottish Land and Estates...

Those who transferred entitlements in England prior to the BPS claim may be wondering if the transaction has gone through.  The...

The wet weather conditions at the end of August have caused some concern for those due to plant EFA catch crops.  According...

Continued wet weather at the end of August hampered harvest progress somewhat but yield and quality reports look positive.  Indications...

DEFRA has launched its 10 point plan to improve rural productivity.  Many of the ideas/commitments within the plan have been announced...

A small sign of markets improving has been offered to dairy farmers from the latest GDT milk auction.  The weighted...

The latest Rural Land Market Survey released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the Royal Agricultural University...

The rollout of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme has not been the smoothest, and a number of queries are still awaiting...

Payments under Environmental Stewardship agreements (ELS, HLS etc.) will be later than usual this year.  This follows the extension of the...

A number of retailers have announced price pledges in response to the ongoing 'crisis' in the milk market.  The first...

Following the decision earlier this year to not introduce a tabular based compensation system, the Welsh Government has launched a...

Following the EU decision to allow Member States to individually restrict or prohibit the use of EU authorised Genetically Modified...