2 March 2015December Survey – Livestock The results from the December Survey of Agriculture for the UK and each of the devolved regions have now been...
26 February 2015Active Farmer Scotland The Scottish Statutory Instrument (SSI) on CAP rules has been laid before Parliament, the SSI includes further details about Active...
26 February 20152015 Meat Market Following the AHDB’s annual conference in February, it has released its latest forecasts for 2015 and 2016. Beef Ascan be...
26 February 2015Long Term Arable Prospects The USDA has published its annual long-term projections for the agricultural sector. The report shows positive demand and trade in...
25 February 2015RDPEUpdate Following the approval of the RDPE programme, DEFRA have published another CAP Update covering funding under Pillar 2 - Rural...
25 February 2015BPS Updates Guidance RPA has published the final guidance handbook for the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme. This booklet incorporates and, in some...
25 February 2015Welsh CAP Update Following the judicial review to abandon the Moorland region it seems that the Welsh Government has fallen even further behind...
25 February 2015Pig Unit Refused The Environment Agency has rejected an application for an Environmental Permit for a planned large scale pig farm at Foston,...
25 February 2015Organic Sales Up The Soil Associations Organic Market Report 2015 shows that sales or organic products have increased by 4% during 2014 with...
23 February 2015Woodland Capital Grants The Woodland Capital Grants scheme opened on the 17th February 2015. The scheme is available for woodland creation, woodland management...
23 February 2015Loam Farm Update – Feb ’15 Andersons Loam Farm figures have been updated to reflect the latest costs and prices. It shows that the 2015 harvest...
20 February 2015Pound Strengthens The Pound has continued to strengthen against the Euro over the last few weeks - largely as a result of...
20 February 2015Drones The use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as they are more properly known, is growing in agriculture. It...
20 February 2015FERA Privatised The Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) is to be part-privatised. The Government research facility, based in York, provides scientific...
20 February 2015Labour Pledges Badger Cull Halt The Labour Party will make a manifesto promise to halt the culling of badgers to control bovine TB. It will...
20 February 2015RDPE Approved The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has been approved by the EU. The set of schemes, worth a little...
20 February 2015Dairy Markets – Feb ’15 Global Markets There is some optimism that global milk commodity values may have turned a corner. The latest GDT (Fonterra)...
18 February 2015BPS Online New functionality has been added to the online Rural Payments system. In addition to checking personal and business details and...
13 February 2015Food Enterprise Zones Grants of up to £50,000 will be available to set up Food Enterprise Zones in a new DEFRA initiative. The...
9 February 2015Scotland BPS ‘cap’ It seems that Scotland are to introduce a 'full cap' of the Basic Payment at €600,000. Discussions had previously centred...
4 February 2015Welsh Ag Education Review A review lead by Professor Wynne Jones into how learning is delivered in further education colleges providing Level 3 Agriculture...
30 January 2015Supermarkets Could Be Fined Measures that will give the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) the power to fine supermarkets for breaching the GroceriesCode have been laid...
30 January 2015Farm Incomes in England 2014/15 Over the past 12 months profits have generally remained static or declined across many sectors of English agriculture. These results come...
30 January 2015Rural Payments – New ‘Funcionality’ The RPA's 'Rural Payment' computer system is to get an upgrade. As from the 2nd February (if things go to...
