The Andersons Centre

As we have previously stated, the EU does not allow double funding; that is getting paid twice for the same...

Minimum Wage New National Minimum Wage rates apply across the UK from the 1st October, with the basic level rising 3%.  The...

The annual Food Statistics Pocketbook has been released by DEFRA. The publication provides a roundup of the social, environmental and...

Sugar beet growers will see their Contact Tonnage Entitlement (CTE) cut by 9% for the 2015 crop.  As we reported...

The June Survey of Agriculture shows that beef and pig herds in England declined between 2013 and 2014.  However, the...

Natural England has announced new applications to the ELS, OELS and UELS will not be accepted after 26th September 2014. ...

All will be aware that come next May, it won't be the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) but the Basic Payment...

Farmers may have been eagerly watching the £/€ exchange rate through September so far, to see at what level their...

World food prices have fallen to a four-year low.  In August the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food Price Index dropped to...

The European Commission has suspended its €125m emergency aid fund, which was set up to help perishable fruit and vegetable...

A bumper European oilseed rape crop is expected to see a 5-year low in imports.  The EU is expected to...

The RSPCA's Freedom Foods will be re-branded to 'RSPCA Assured' after concerns that consumers do not recognise or know what...

The application window for the NVZ grassland derogation is now open for the 2015 year.  The usual 'manure loading limit'...

Dacian Ciolos has been replaced as EU Farm Commissioner by the Irishman, Phil Hogan.  The full 28-person line-up was announced by the...

One of the major remaining unknowns in the English Greening rules is the treatment of hedges under the Ecological Focus...

Milk processor, Arla have announced a €38m whey processing facility will be built next to its existing plant in Videbæk,...

The 2014 sugar beet harvest is getting underway shortly, with a record crop predicted.  The Wissington and Newark factories open...

With UK milk prices falling rapidly, Andersons have updated their Friesian Farm Model to illustrate the effect on dairy farm profitability. ...

The Welsh Government has published further information on how the Greening measures will work in Wales.  The latest booklet - 'Your...

First Milk has announced a huge 3ppl price cut as from 1st October for all of its suppliers.  The cut...

UK farmgate milk prices continue their descent.  Muller Wiseman is the latest processor to announce a substantial cut.  The non-aligned...

Good harvest progress was made during the first half of August, but this then slowed as some areas were affected by showers. ...

Within the UK, vegetable area rose 2% to 131,000 hectares in 2013 and fruit area remained unchanged at 29,000 hectares...