19 December 2017 Scottish Income Tax Rates Rates of Income Tax in Scotland and the rest of the UK are set to diverge further following the Scottish...
9 November 2016 BPS Update Accountable People The RPA has confirmed that the requirement for claimants to give the RPA details of all 'Accountable People'...
8 November 2016 Scottish BPS Loans Begin The Scottish Government has announced it has started to make payments under the National Basic Payment Support Scheme (NBPSS). Rural...
3 November 2016 Scottish BPS Payment Rates The problems with Basic Payments in Scotland continue, with many businesses still not having received the correct sums for the...
3 November 2016 Farm Incomes Drop Farming profits declined in almost all sectors in 2015/16. This, perhaps unsurprising, finding comes from the latest Farm Business Survey...
3 November 2016 Article 50 Legal Challenge A legal challenge has been successfully made against the Government's plans to trigger Article 50 and begin the process of...
3 November 2016 GDT Jump The latest GDT auction on the 1st November saw the index of prices jump by 11.4%. Prices were led by...
28 October 2016 Potato Supply Falls The supply of potatoes from the 2016 crop looks set to be lower. This is already having an effect on...
28 October 2016 Milk Production Milk output continues to fall, both domestically and globally. Deliveries in September were almost 10% lower than the same month...
27 October 2016 Arable Outlook Currency continues to support UK cereal and oilseed prices. The domestic market is just about being entirely driven by the...
27 October 2016 EU/Canada Trade Deal Salvaged An ambitious free-trade agreement between the EU and Canada has been salvaged at the last minute. It appeared that the deal...
27 October 2016 BPS Roundup There have been a number of new pieces of BPS information over the last few of weeks: The RPA has announced it...
27 October 2016 Glyphosate The future of Glyphosate is back in the news again. Following the EU Commission's 18-month extension to the herbicides's licence and...
27 October 2016 UK Supply & Demand 2016/17 The first official estimates for supply and demand of cereals for harvest 2016 have been published by AHDB Cereals &...
26 October 2016 Dairy Event(s) Impasse There will be two national dairyevents in September 2017 after the organisers of the events failed to agree to hold...
25 October 2016 June Census Results Provisional results from the UK June Survey of Agriculture are a little surprising, but perhaps show how resilient UK livestock...
25 October 2016 UK Census Results It will be no surprise to most that the UK cereal and oilseed production for the 2016 season is considerably...
24 October 2016 Welsh RD Schemes Those who applied for the Glastir Small Grant are advised to check their on-line account. Contracts are being issued via...
20 October 2016 Bovine TB Measures in Wales The Welsh Government is consulting on new measures to eliminate bovine TB. The current programme ends in 2016. The new...
20 October 2016 GDT Auction Improves Slightly After falling by 3% at the beginning of the month, the overall GDT Price Index increased by 1.4% to $2,965...
20 October 2016 Milk Reduction Scheme The second application window for the milk production reduction scheme closed on 12th October. Just over 6,000 farmers across the...
19 October 2016 IFCN Dairy Outlook According to the International Farm Comparison Network’s (IFCN) Long-Term Dairy Outlook, global milk production will increase by 25% to 1,038...
18 October 2016 Greening Readers will be aware, we wrote back in August about proposed changes to the Greening rules. Following concerns raised by...
6 October 2016 GDT Price Drops The overall average price index fell at the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction. Hopefully just a blip, this ends...
