28 April 2015 Grain Stocks Reassessment The official wheat stock level that underpins the UK supply and demand balance sheet is under review as being too...
27 April 2015 Updated BPS Guidance A number of documents have been updated or added to the ever-lengthening list of BPS guidance in England. Updated RLE1...
23 April 2015 Common Land Following a legal challenge, those farming common land may be able to claim higher support payments. DEFRA has concluded that...
23 April 2015 Meat Market Update Beef Prime cattle prices have come under pressure as supply outstrips demand with reports, once again, of some disruption at...
23 April 2015 GM Animal Feed EU Commission proposals on the import of GM crops have managed to upset almost everyone - the feed and farming industry,...
22 April 2015 Savills Buys Smith Gore Savills is to buy Smiths Gore in a deal worth £40m. Smiths Gore was founded in 1847 and has its...
21 April 2015 BPS Updates for England Greening Workbook The RPA has published a 'Greening Workbook' on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/422907/Greening_workbook_vFINAL.pdf . It is designed to guide...
20 April 2015 Tractor Sales Down Uncertainty in the CAP, lower output prices and a drop in farm incomes have been blamed for a slump in tractor...
17 April 2015 TB Update The provisional incidence rate of bovine TB in GB cattle was 3.9% in January 2015, down from 4.5% in January...
17 April 2015 Increased EU Coupled Support The big idea in the Fischler Reforms that brought in the Single Payment in 2005 was the conceptof 'decoupling'. This...
17 April 2015 AHA 1986 Amendments As is often the case at the end of a Parliament, a number of measures are pushed through at the...
17 April 2015 Insect Farming A new pan-European group has been formed to promote the use of insects in farming. The 'International Platform of Insects...
17 April 2015 Deer Farming A new report highlights lack of finance and technical knowledge as key factors holding back the growth of the domestic...
17 April 2015 Milk Prices GDT Auction Falls Again The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction on the 15th April contained further bad news for...
17 April 2015 Rural Broadband The Statistical Digest of Rural England (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-digest-of-rural-england-2013) has been updated. Data on rural innovation, broadband, investment and productivity have been...
17 April 2015 Scottish Beef Payments Around 7,600 Scottish farmers have received their share of the £20.9 million pot available under the Scottish Beef Scheme. This...
16 April 2015 Scottish BPS Deadline Delayed The Scottish Government has announced that the deadline for submission of Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) applications will be pushed back a...
14 April 2015 BPS – Making a Claim Pre-populated forms are now being e-mailed out. To those who have previously used the paper SP5 form they will look...
13 April 2015 BPS Update – Apr ’15 Entitlement Trading Extended It has now been confirmed that the deadline for entitlement trading will be extended by a month. ...
10 April 2015 Levy Rates Maintained UK ministers have agreed that the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) levy rates will be maintained at the same...
9 April 2015 Wales Stick to Deadline The Welsh Government has announced that it will not extended the BPS application deadline. In order to avoid delays in...
8 April 2015 Farm Rents Increase Farm rents have increased for the 6th year in a row. The latest DEFRA statistics on farm rents in England...
8 April 2015 BPS Form Mail-out The RPA has announced that pre-populated BPS forms in England will start to be sent out from Monday 13th April. ...
7 April 2015 CSS Update The RPA has published a further update on the new Countryside Stewardship Scheme. This explains how the scheme works, what current...
