1 May 2013 April Dairy Update Production Stays Low UK milk production fails to show any sign of recovery. Figures from the RPA report deliveries in...
1 May 2013 Plans for Farm Advice A review of DEFRA-sponsored advice, incentives and partnership approaches has been carried out with the aim of improving farm advice....
1 May 2013 DairyCo Reports DairyCo MilkBench+ Report Controlling costs and ensuring you are on the correct production system for your milk contract are the...
1 May 2013 RDPE Update As the current Rural Development Programme (RDP) comes to an end on 31st December 2013 DEFRA, Natural England and the...
1 May 2013 Snow Effects This March was the coldest in the UK since 1962 according to weather historians. The severe weather has been devastating...
1 May 2013 Agriculutral Wages Board The Agricultural Wages Board in England and Wales will now definitely cease operation from 1st October 2013. The Enterprise andRegulatory...
1 May 2013 Scottish Beef Scheme Scottish cattle farmers should be receiving their payments under the Scottish Beef Scheme 2012. These are the first set of...
1 May 2013 Renewable Heat Incentive The domestic element of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme has been delayed again until spring 2014. Originally due to...
1 May 2013 GM Poultry Feed Tesco’s, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have all announced they are to start permitting GM feed in poultry...
1 May 2013 Welsh Restucture As from 1st April, in Wales the Forestry Commission, Environment Agency and the Countryside Council for Wales merged into one. ...
1 May 2013 Tesco’s British Pledge Following on from Tesco’s pledge to British farmers back in February, Kevin Grace, Tesco’s commercial and supply chain manager, has...
1 May 2013 Yound Entrants Suport Scheme Since its launch in 2010 the Young Entrant Support Scheme (YESS) has helped 366 young and new entrants access £5.1...
1 May 2013 Pig Margins BPEX has reported that pig margins have improved over the last quarter, but they remain negative for the average producer. ...
1 May 2013 We will be adding general information and website links that may be useful to subscribers below: For the latest DEFRA Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs&publication_filter_option=statistics
1 May 2013 Slurry Management and Storage A joint project between DEFRA and the farming industry has been launched to consider issues relating to the storage and...
1 May 2013 Cider Production Cider producers are facing growing concerns over the continued cold weather. Currently the apple growing season is two and a...
30 April 2013 Farm Incomes Resilient in 2012 UK farm profits fell by 14% between 2011 and 2012. This is the headline figure from the latest Total Income from...
25 April 2013 Future English Hill Support The idea of amending the current three English SPS regions in order to provide more support to hill farmers seems...
25 April 2013 DairyCo Report A report commissioned by DairyCo and undertaken by The Andersons Centre and the University of Nottingham has dispelled three common...
24 April 2013 Farm Incomes – Scotland The Scottish Government has released information on two income measures; Total Income from Farming (TIFF) and the average Farm Business...
24 April 2013 SPS Payment Cuts for 2013 and 2014 No sooner had we written in the last Bulletin about possible cuts in the 2013 Single Payment, than an official statement outlining...
23 April 2013 Single Payment Update 2012 Payments Almost all 2012 SPS payments have now been made. The RPA has announced that, as of the end...
