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25 February 2015

Organic Sales Up

The Soil Associations Organic Market Report 2015 shows that sales or organic products have increased by 4% during 2014 with...
23 February 2015

Woodland Capital Grants

The Woodland Capital Grants scheme opened on the 17th February 2015.  The scheme is available for woodland creation, woodland management...
Andersons Loam Farm figures have been updated to reflect the latest costs and prices.  It shows that the 2015 harvest...
20 February 2015

Pound Strengthens

The Pound has continued to strengthen against the Euro over the last few weeks - largely as a result of...
20 February 2015

Drones

The use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as they are more properly known, is growing in agriculture.  It...
20 February 2015

FERA Privatised

The Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) is to be part-privatised.  The Government research facility, based in York, provides scientific...
The Labour Party will make a manifesto promise to halt the culling of badgers to control bovine TB.  It will...
20 February 2015

RDPE Approved

The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has been approved by the EU.  The set of schemes, worth a little...
20 February 2015

Dairy Markets – Feb ’15

Global Markets There is some optimism that global milk commodity values may have turned a corner.  The latest GDT (Fonterra)...
18 February 2015

BPS Online

New functionality has been added to the online Rural Payments system.  In addition to checking personal and business details and...
13 February 2015

Food Enterprise Zones

Grants of up to £50,000 will be available to set up Food Enterprise Zones in a new DEFRA initiative.  The...
9 February 2015

Scotland BPS ‘cap’

It seems that Scotland are to introduce a 'full cap' of the Basic Payment at €600,000.  Discussions had previously centred...
4 February 2015

Welsh Ag Education Review

A review lead by Professor Wynne Jones into how learning is delivered in further education colleges providing Level 3 Agriculture...
30 January 2015

Supermarkets Could Be Fined

Measures that will give the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) the power to fine supermarkets for breaching the GroceriesCode have been laid...
Over the past 12 months profits have generally remained static or declined across many sectors of English agriculture.  These results come...
The International Grains Council updated its 2014/15 grain harvest forecast last week.  It has been gradually edging up its figures...
Ahead of the CropTec show at Peterborough on the 19th and 20th November, the figures for Andersons Loam Farm have...
29 January 2015

Increase in GM Area

Latest figures from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) show that the global area planted to...
29 January 2015

Scottish Tenancy Review

The Agricultural Holdings Legislation Review Group published its final report on Tuesday 27th January.  The report is described as 'bold...
A report, 'The Best British Farmers - What Gives them the Edge?' produced by The Andersons Centre was presented at...
The figures for Meadow Farm have been updated ahead of Andersons Spring Seminars in February and March.  Budgets for next year show...
29 January 2015

Dairy Roundup – Jan ’15

It has been a difficult month for all in the dairy industry with some still coming to terms with the...
28 January 2015

Scottish Farm Incomes

The profitability of Scottish farming is estimated to have dropped 18% in real terms in 2014 compared to 2013.  Total Income...