26 February 2015 Long 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 2015 RDPEUpdate Following the approval of the RDPE programme, DEFRA have published another CAP Update covering funding under Pillar 2 - Rural...
25 February 2015 BPS Updates Guidance RPA has published the final guidance handbook for the 2015 Basic Payment Scheme. This booklet incorporates and, in some...
25 February 2015 Welsh CAP Update Following the judicial review to abandon the Moorland region it seems that the Welsh Government has fallen even further behind...
25 February 2015 Pig Unit Refused The Environment Agency has rejected an application for an Environmental Permit for a planned large scale pig farm at Foston,...
25 February 2015 Organic Sales Up The Soil Associations Organic Market Report 2015 shows that sales or organic products have increased by 4% during 2014 with...
23 February 2015 Loam Farm Update – Feb ’15 Andersons Loam Farm figures have been updated to reflect the latest costs and prices. It shows that the 2015 harvest...
23 February 2015 Woodland Capital Grants The Woodland Capital Grants scheme opened on the 17th February 2015. The scheme is available for woodland creation, woodland management...
20 February 2015 Pound Strengthens The Pound has continued to strengthen against the Euro over the last few weeks - largely as a result of...
20 February 2015 Drones The use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as they are more properly known, is growing in agriculture. It...
20 February 2015 FERA Privatised The Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) is to be part-privatised. The Government research facility, based in York, provides scientific...
20 February 2015 Labour 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 2015 RDPE Approved The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has been approved by the EU. The set of schemes, worth a little...
20 February 2015 Dairy 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 2015 BPS Online New functionality has been added to the online Rural Payments system. In addition to checking personal and business details and...
13 February 2015 Food 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 2015 Scotland 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 2015 Welsh 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 2015 Supermarkets 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 2015 Farm 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 2015 Rural Payments – New ‘Funcionality’ The RPA's 'Rural Payment' computer system is to get an upgrade. As from the 2nd February (if things go to...
30 January 2015 Grain Market Update – Jan ’15 The International Grains Council updated its 2014/15 grain harvest forecast last week. It has been gradually edging up its figures...
29 January 2015 Scottish Tenancy Review The Agricultural Holdings Legislation Review Group published its final report on Tuesday 27th January. The report is described as 'bold...
29 January 2015 What Gives Farmers the Edge? A report, 'The Best British Farmers - What Gives them the Edge?' produced by The Andersons Centre was presented at...
