The Andersons Centre

Some slight pre-Christmas cheer for the dairy sector came with the GDT milk auction results showing a second consecutive rise. ...

Environment Secretary, Liz Truss, has announced the next steps for delivering the Government's TB eradication strategy.  This will include the...

The Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) announced the changes to be made to future support for the renewables...

The Scottish Government has announced that they are 'on track' with payments. The first payments will be made during December...

The Farmer Innovation Grant has opened for applications from beef and sheep farmers in England.  The AHDB will fund groups...

The EU Commission has completed the adoption of all 118 Rural Development Programmes.  EU rural aid funding totals €99.6bn for...

The beef industry has called for clarity over penalties being imposed by some abattoirs for cattle being 'moved' too many...

The second round of the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund will open on 18th January 2016 and close on 18th March...

Farmers affected by the recent flooding in Cumbria and north Lancashire will be eligible for up to £20,000 of support. ...

Potato production in Great Britain will fall by 5.5% for the 2015 season compared to 2014.  This is according to...

Two of the worlds largest chemical companies, Dow and DuPont are in the advance stages of merger negotiations.  If the...

Tesco is investigating whether to introduce a cost-of-production pricing model for some of its lamb supply.  This would build on...

There may be a redistribution of levy board funding in the beef and sheep sectors as a result of a...

As at the 8th the RPA had made 36,083 English BPS payments.  This is some 41.4% of eligible farmers.  The...

Thirty two new cereal and oilseed rape varieties have been added to the 2016/17 AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds Recommended lists, whilst...

AHDB Beef and Lamb (previously Eblex) has released its latest benchmarking figures for English beef and sheep enterprises.   The...

Two Monsanto genetically modified maize varieties have been approved for import into the EU.  Mon87427 and NK603xT25 may enter the...

A review of Hybu Cig Cymru / Meat Promotion Wales will being in January.  The review will focus on the...

The Welsh Government has had to suspend its badger vaccination programme due to a worldwide shortage of the vaccine.  The...

There has been an update on the 'Active Farmer' declaration with respect to entitlement transfers.  The person receiving entitlements must...

UK milk production for October stood at at 1,192.8 million litres; 38.1 million litres more than in September.  This is...

Applicants to Countryside Stewardship (CSS) may have to start the scheme without having an agreement in place. Natural England had...

After three consecutive falls, prices on the GDT milk auction increased at the 1st December sale.  The index of products...

The election of a new Government in Argentina may seem rather remote from UK farming.  However, the ripples from the...