27 November 2015BPS Payments Begin The RPA has announced that it will be paying around 30,000 English farmers thier 2015 Basic Payment on 1st December. ...
27 November 2015Farm Profits DEFRA's farm profitability figures continue to surprise. The Department has just released an update to its Total Income from Farming...
27 November 2015UK Farm Balance Sheet The UK farming industry increased its net worth by almost 6% in the 2014 calendar year according to DEFRA statistics. ...
26 November 2015Spending Review DEFRA faces a 15% real-terms cutin its budget over the next 5 years. This is the result of the settlement...
26 November 2015UK Supply and Demand 2015/16 The first official estimates for supply and demand of cereals has been published. Wheat availability is up by 1% on...
25 November 2015November Arable Update – 1 We often look at currency when it comes to grain markets and this month is no exception. The euro took...
24 November 2015Entitlement Transfers Many will be wanting to transfer entitlements ahead of the 2016 BPS claim. Timings and processes differ across the GB...
24 November 2015Financial Discipline The EU Commission has confirmed that the rate of Financial Discipline (FD) on 2015 BPS payments will be 1.393041%. This applies...
24 November 2015Early Bird Survey The AHDB's Early Bird Survey (EBS) has been published. It shows the wheat area remaining static but a decline in...
24 November 2015Pig Meat Market The latest figures from AHDB Pork show GB finished pig prices continue their downward trend. Prices have generally been in...
24 November 2015Milk Prices and Production As processors start to introduce their winter pricing, the average UK farmgate milk price for September actually increased by 0.33p...
20 November 2015Oversubscribed Grant Funding The Countryside Productivity Scheme could be deemed a success by DEFRA even before funding has been granted, but there will...
20 November 2015CAP Simplification – Nov ’15 The EU Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, has set out his plans for simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy, and especially the Basic...
19 November 2015Energy Policy The Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Amber Rudd, has set out the Government's future vision for energy policy in the...
19 November 2015DEFRA Budget Cuts It seems likely that DEFRA's budget will reduce by over a quarter in the next four years. Precise details will be...
18 November 2015Future of Beet Growing There is likely to be increased flexibility in sugar beet contracts following the end of EU sugar beet quotas in...
18 November 2015Part BPS Payments in Scotland Scottish farmers will receive BPS payments in December - but only part of them. The Scottish Government has announced that the...
18 November 2015Renewed Appoval Expected for Glyphosate EU Food Safety watchdog, EFSA, has found that glyphosate, the world's most widely-used weed killer, is 'unlikely to cause cancer'. ...
17 November 2015Dairy Aid Payments The RPA has announced it has started making the aid payments due as part of the EU dairy support package (see...
17 November 2015Superlevy Provisional data from the European Commission reports twelve countries were over quota for the milk year 2014-15 and will have to...
17 November 2015Bovine TB Study The results of a study into Bovine TB suggests that larger herds, growing maize, feeding silage and fewer hedgerows on...
17 November 2015Global Dairy Production and Prices AHDB Dairy has reported milk production in the five main exporting regions, EU, US, NZ, Australia and Argentina, is finally...
11 November 2015Farm Profits Fall Most sectors of agriculture saw profits fall in 2014/15 compared to the previous year. This is according to the latest...
11 November 2015English Entitlement Values The Rural Payments Agency has announced Basic Payment Scheme entitlement values for 2015. The estimated payment in the Lowland region...
