3 August 2016 Livestock Movement Rules Farming Minister, George Eustice, announced on 27th Julythat the new livestock movement rules (See May's article) will start rolling out...
3 August 2016 Scotland Sheep Payments Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, has confirmed payments under the new Scottish Upland Sheep Support Scheme (SUSSS) will be paid...
3 August 2016 Strong Results at GDT Auction Although there is a long way to go, dairy markets seem a lot more positive than a month ago. Domestically...
3 August 2016 Barclays Loan Fund Barclays has launched a loan fund worth £100m for farmers to help boost the industry's profitability and efficiency. The loans...
2 August 2016 Potato Plantings AHDB has released its first estimates of total potato plantings for the 2016 crop. These show the GB area has...
25 July 2016 July Arable Update The barley and oilseed rape harvests have begun in parts of Southern England. Clearly it is early days yet, but...
21 July 2016 Canada Trade Deal Trade policy and trade deals have become rather more important in farming thinking since the Brexit result. An example of...
21 July 2016 Dairy Markets Production UK milk production has turned sharply downwards. According to AHDB Dairy, deliveries in Great Britain for the fortnight up...
20 July 2016 Greening ‘Simplification’ The EU Commission's plans to simplify the Greening rules look set to disappoint many who hoped for a radical change. The...
19 July 2016 Planting Survey Results The 2016 AHDB Planting and Variety Survey shows an increase in the spring barley and oat area, but a decline...
19 July 2016 DEFRA Ministerial Line-Up The DEFRA ministerial line-up has been confirmed. As previously reported Andrea Leadsom will head up the Department as the Secretary...
19 July 2016 EU Aid Package The European Commission has announced a further package of measures, worth €500, million to support EU farmers, with particular emphasis...
15 July 2016 New DEFRA Secretary Andrea Leadsom is the new DEFRA Secretary. The Prime Minister, Teresa May has appointed the former Energy Secretary, and her...
15 July 2016 2017 Beet Price It has been announced that the minimum sugar beet price for the 2017 growing year will be £22 per tonne. ...
11 July 2016 Cross Compliance Breaches The RPA has released its latest report detailing the cross-compliance inspection statistics for 2015. The total number of failures has...
11 July 2016 BPS Update 2016 Claims Update The RPA has confirmed that it has received 86,820 BPS 2016 claims. Of these, 69,905 (80.5%) were...
7 July 2016 Brexit Update As the dust begins to settle on the Brexit decision, some further thoughts on where we are, and where we...
5 July 2016 Meat Market As soon as the results came through from the UK referendum the value of the Pound fell sharply against both...
5 July 2016 BPS Scotland Update 2015 BPS Payments Scotland has now made full 2015 BPS payments to about 97% of claimants. According to Rural Economy...
4 July 2016 Meadow Farm Update Andersons has updated its Meadow Farm model. Meadow Farm is a notional 154 hectare (380 acre) lowland mixed beef and...
4 July 2016 Fertiliser Prices Attention in nearly all sectors has been on output prices but many costs have also reduced. In particular, fertiliser prices...
1 July 2016 Livestock Event Changes The Livestock Event on the 6th and 7th July will be the last in the present format. From 2017 it has...
30 June 2016 2015 BPS Queries The RPA has announced how it will be dealing with the outstanding queries relating to the 2015 BPS. Many will have e-mailed...
30 June 2016 Accountable People It seems the RPA may no longer require all the details of 'accountable people' associated with a business. Many will...
