21 March 2014 Change to permitted development rights Under new rules farmers will find it easier to secure permission to convert buildings for residential use. From 6th April...
21 March 2014 UK Livestock Populations The results from the December Survey of Agriculture for the UK and each of the devolved regions have now been...
21 March 2014 Budget 2014 The Chancellor, George Osborne delivered his fifth Budget on 19th March. This pre-election Budget claimed to be one for the...
13 March 2014 More CAP Details Emerge Another piece of the CAP reform jigsaw has slotted into place with the publication of detailed rules at the European...
12 March 2014 Tractor MOT Scrapped European proposals for MOT style tractor and trailer tests have been scrapped. The European Parliament, Council and Commission agreed to...
10 March 2014 Yes to YESS The Young Entrants Support Scheme (YESS) operated by the Welsh Government will be extended for a further year. The scheme, which...
10 March 2014 English Environmental Stewardship Update Natural England has published more details on the New Environmental Land Management Scheme (NELMS). Transitional arrangements remain as we have...
10 March 2014 Winter Cropping 2014 Harvest Not surprisingly, the area of winter combinable crops has rebounded strongly for harvest 2014. The planted area of winter cereals...
7 March 2014 2014 Uplands Transitional Payments England Eligible beef and sheep farmers should have received their 2014 Uplands Transitional Payment (UTP). In the final year of...
6 March 2014 Land Prices Continue to Rise Farmland prices continue to rise according to the latest results from the Rural Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the...
5 March 2014 Scotland Food and Drink Export Plan The Scottish Government Food and Drink Export Plan has identified seven key markets to further drive sales. North America, France,...
5 March 2014 Scottish CAP Timeline Scotland's Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead, has set out plans for CAP Reform over the coming months. The deadline for responses...
5 March 2014 Welsh Agricultural Education Review The Welsh Government has commissioned a review of agricultural education as part of its vision for a thriving farming industry....
4 March 2014 Badger Culls Questioned A leaked report seen by the BBC is said to question the humaneness and efficacy of the pilot badger culls...
27 February 2014 NFU Elections Meurig Raymond will succeed Peter Kendall as President of the NFU. Mr Raymond, who operates a 3,400 acre mixed farm...
27 February 2014 CAP Timeline DEFRA has produced a 'timeline' showing how it plans to progress CAP reform in England. The document can be found...
27 February 2014 Young Farmers Scheme Young farmers will not be required to meet additional eligibility criteria for the Young Farmers Scheme (YFS) in England. Also, the...
27 February 2014 Budget 2014 The Chancellor, George Osborne, will present his 2014 Budget on the 19th March.
27 February 2014 NELMS abandons landscape-scale Landscape-scale agri-environmental agreements do not look like forming a major part of NELMS after all. Readers may recall that this...
26 February 2014 Co-op Farms to be Sold The Co-operative Group has announced plans to sell its portfolio of farms. The decision to sell the 15 farms, covering 50,000...
26 February 2014 Milk Prices Arla is currently setting the pace in the British milk market. The co-op has announced that its members' price will...
26 February 2014 Farming Recovery Funds Opens The Farming Recovery Fund (FRF) opens for applications on Friday 28th February. This provides funds of £10m to farms in...
26 February 2014 Beet Harvest Increases British Sugar has increased their estimate for harvest 2013 to 1.3 million tonnes of sugar, up from the 1.28 million...
26 February 2014 Scottish Agri-Renewables Strategy The Scottish Goverment has published an Agri-Renewables Strategy for Scotland (see - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/02/7600). This sets out six key areas the...
