23 June 2015 Public Opinion of Farmers Improves For the forth year running the public's opinion of farmers has improved. According to the OnePoll survey, 68% of people...
23 June 2015 Basic Payment Scheme Roundup With the dust settling on applications for the Basic Payment Scheme in England there are some issues that applicants may...
19 June 2015 Wind Farm Subsidies to End Honouring a Election Manifesto pledge, the Conservative Government has announced its intention to end subsidies for onshore wind farms from...
18 June 2015 Dairy Crest Sale: No Approval Yet The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ruled that Muller's proposed acquisition of Dairy Crest's Dairy (i.e. liquid milk) division...
17 June 2015 Organic Reform Comprmise The Latvian Presidency has managed to negotiate a compromise of the revision of EU organic rules. There have been two...
17 June 2015 BSE Scare Ireland A suspected case of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) has been identified in Ireland. The five year-old cow, which had not...
17 June 2015 Cereals Event Attendance Falls Visitor numbers to the 2015 Cereals Event fell by around 2% to 24,500. For 2016 the event will return to...
17 June 2015 BPS Deadline Passed The extended BPS deadline for applications without penalty passed on midnight on the 15th June for farmers in Scotland and England. ...
15 June 2015 Further DEFRA Cuts DEFRA will face cuts of a further £83 million from its 2015/16 budget as part of wider government austerity plans. ...
15 June 2015 Countryside Stewardship Applications July marksthe start of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) application window. Applications must be submitted between July and September although...
12 June 2015 Review of Glastir Advanced An independent review has been undertaken into the delivery of Glastir Advanced. The review, undertaken by Geoff Radley (consultant), Leuan...
11 June 2015 Over 17,000 Welsh forms The total number of Single Application Forms submitted in Wales was 17,063. Just 105 forms were submitted after the deadline...
11 June 2015 Environmental Stewardship Claim Forms Environmental Stewardship Claim Forms must be submitted by 15th June, however we have been informed that the address on the...
8 June 2015 Irish Milk Production Surges With quotas now removed, Irish milk production is surging ahead - despite the very low dairy prices. Figures form the...
8 June 2015 No Respite on GDT Auction The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction on the 2nd June provided no optimism for hard-pressed dairy farmers. Prices followed...
8 June 2015 Scottish Ag Wage Proposal The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board has proposed that the standard rate should increase by 1.4% as from 1st October. Workers...
8 June 2015 Welsh Agricultural Strategy The Welsh Government has set out a 'Strategic Framework for Welsh Agriculture'. This has been produced in consultation with the...
8 June 2015 ELS Livestock Record Keeping ELS agreement holders will not be required to record livestock numbers on a field-by-field basis. Natural England wrote to around...
8 June 2015 Farm Succession Only a little over a third of English farms have a firm plan for passing the business on. A survey...
8 June 2015 Friesian Farm Update Ahead of the Livestock Event on the 8th and 9th of July, Andersons have updated their Friesian Farm model. As...
3 June 2015 Scottish Farmers To Recieve Rebate Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead, has announced that Scottish farmers are to receive a £12.2 million rebate from unspent...
1 June 2015 Agriculture in the UK – Jun ’15 The latest edition of 'Agriculture in the UK' has been published. It is produced by DEFRA's Statistics section and includes...
27 May 2015 Scottish RDP Approved The Scottish Rural Development Programme has been formally approved by the European Commission. The approval will now allow for final...
27 May 2015 Scottish Agricultural Wages A consultation has been launched on the future of the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board. The consultation asks whether the Board...
