22 October 2013Lower SPS DEductions but Payments Delayed? Financial Discipline may be revised downwards even further, but farmers could face delays in receiving their 2013 payments. An amending...
22 October 2013UK June Survey Results DEFRA has published its provisional results from the June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture for the UK. The key results...
15 October 2013US Biofuels US imports of Brazilian sugar cane ethanol could be cut be more than 50% if a draft proposal to reduce...
15 October 2013Peter Kendall To Step Down After eight years as the President of the National Farmers Union, Peter Kendall has confirmed his intentions to step down...
11 October 2013New Farm AD Fund A new grant scheme has opened to support farm-scale anaerobic digestion (AD). The 'On-Farm AD Fund' will have £3m of...
11 October 2013Agri-tech Fund Opens The Government's £70m 'Agri-tech Catalyst Fund' has opened for bids. This was part of the Agri-Tech Strategy we reported on...
11 October 2013Andersons CAP Reform Seminars Andersons ran a series of Seminars on CAP reform in late September and early October. For those of our subscribers...
10 October 2013NVZ Grassland Derogation 2014 The application window for the NVZ grassland derogation is now open for the 2014 year. The usual 'manure loading limit'...
10 October 2013Second Generation Biofuels Plant Opens The biofuel industry has seen an important development this month. A new plant producing ethanol has officially opened in Crescentino,...
10 October 2013Financial Discipline 2013 The rate of financial discipline looks set to be lower than the initial 4.98% proposed. Back in April we reported...
10 October 2013Scottish Dairy Review The Scottish Government has released a bold dairy strategy with the aim of increasing milk production by 50% over the next...
7 October 2013New DEFRA Minister The government reshuffle sees two new faces arrive at DEFRA. David Heath, Farming Minister, has been replaced by Dan Rogerson,...
7 October 2013Welsh BPS Moorland Payment The Welsh Government has provided further detail on possible payment rates under the new Basic PaymentScheme (BPS). Primarily, these look...
1 October 2013Reminders from the RPA The RPA is reminding SPS claimants to make sure the bank details it holds for them are correct. 2013 Single...
30 September 2013SPS Conversion Rate Fixed SPS Conversion Rate The rate for converting the 2013 Single Payment will be €1 = £0.83605. This is the ‘official...
30 September 2013Cereals Market Update Old Crop Good grain analysts and market economists try to predict the changes in grain supply and demand before they...
28 September 2013SRDP Transition The Scottish Governmenthas confirmed that the main elements of the existing Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) will continue into 2014. As...
28 September 2013NFU Cereals Survey Initial results form the NFU's harvest survey show that wheat yields were far better than looked likely during the spring. However,...
28 September 2013English Livestock Numbers The June Survey of Agriculture shows that dairy, beef and pig herds in England declined between 2012 and 2013. However,...
27 September 2013More Price Increases Following last week’s announcements from Muller Wiseman and Sainsbury, five more processors have announced milk price rises: First Milk manufacturing...
26 September 2013CAP Agreement Concluded The final elements of the CAP reform package have now been agreed. The headline point is that 'degressivity' will remain...
26 September 2013Waste Exemption Renewals Farmers in England and Wales should have registered for agricultural waste exemptions by the 30th September. Under the Environmental Permitting...
26 September 2013DEFRA CAP Consultation DEFRA is due to launch its consultation on the implementation of CAP reform in England in the second week of...
26 September 2013Superlevy in Europe As previously reported (see /livestock/milk-production-and-butterfat/) the UK was under its national milk quota by a record amount in 2012/13 (-13.8%). The...
