22 April 2015Savills 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 2015BPS 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 2015Tractor 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 2015Rural 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 2015Scottish Beef Payments Around 7,600 Scottish farmers have received their share of the £20.9 million pot available under the Scottish Beef Scheme. This...
17 April 2015TB 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 2015Increased 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 2015AHA 1986 Amendments As is often the case at the end of a Parliament, a number of measures are pushed through at the...
17 April 2015Insect Farming A new pan-European group has been formed to promote the use of insects in farming. The 'International Platform of Insects...
17 April 2015Deer Farming A new report highlights lack of finance and technical knowledge as key factors holding back the growth of the domestic...
17 April 2015Milk Prices GDT Auction Falls Again The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction on the 15th April contained further bad news for...
16 April 2015Scottish 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 2015BPS – 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 2015BPS 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 2015Levy Rates Maintained UK ministers have agreed that the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) levy rates will be maintained at the same...
9 April 2015Wales 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 2015Farm Rents Increase Farm rents have increased for the 6th year in a row. The latest DEFRA statistics on farm rents in England...
8 April 2015BPS 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 2015CSS Update The RPA has published a further update on the new Countryside Stewardship Scheme. This explains how the scheme works, what current...
1 April 2015Welsh BPS Proposals It looks increasingly likely that there will be a single region under the Welsh BPS - resulting in some significant...
31 March 2015Paper BPS Update The move back to paper BPS applications in England has inevitably thrown up some questions around the process. This article...
30 March 2015Cross Border BPS Claims DEFRA has published Guidance for those that have land within more than one country of the UK and wish to claim...
30 March 2015Glyphosate Study Criticised A report that has classified the widely used herbicide glyphosate as 'probably carcinogenic to humans' has been widely criticised. The...
30 March 2015Scottish Farm Incomes The Scottish Government has released figures on average profits by business type (Farm Business Income) for the 2013 crop year...
