The Andersons Centre

The final figures for the 2014 SPS shows a 27% increase in online applications compared to the 2013 SPS.  In...

Professor Mike Goodling will be the new Director at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University....

It seems highly likely that Jean-Claude Junker will be appointed the next President of the EU Commission, replacing Jose Barroso...

Old Crop The end of June marks the end of the nationally recorded grain marketing campaign.  There is some old...

Some 24,950 people attended the Cereals Event in Cambridgeshire on the 11th and 12th June according to organisers Haymarket Events. ...

In our article of the 13th June ('Further Greening Points') we gave some thought to the detailed rules for Greening.  It...

The Welsh Government has announced its future plans for Glastir.  The proposals outline the programmes available under the environmental scheme...

Farmers in Northern Ireland will have seven years to adjust to a regional payment system, and there will only be...

Now most of the CAP reform rules are known in England, attention is moving towards the mechanics of actually making...

UK Milk Prices Arla has announced that the price paid to its members will fall by 1.23ppl as from 7th July.   This...

DEFRA have received a derogation request from Syngenta to enable farmers to use neonicotinoid seed treatment on their oilseed rape this...

The Scottish Agricultural Holdings Legislation Review group has delivered its interim report.  It really is a provisional document as it...

The Scottish Government has recently published the Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture 2014.  The report, compiled by the Rural and...

The NFU is calling for a beef crisis summit meeting.  The Union has already held its own discussions with meat...

DEFRA has launched a consultation proposing measures to further strengthen bovine TB controls.  Views are being sought on; Removing the...

Ahead of the Livestock Event on the 2nd and 3rd of July, Andersons have updated their Friesian Farm model.  This forecasts...

EU Energy Ministers have backed a proposal to limit the amount of crop-based biofuels, such as biodiesel from rapeseed, that...

Following DEFRA's announcement on the implementation of CAP reform (see June 10th article), more information has started to trickle-out in...

Scotland's Rural Affairs Secretary, Richard Lochhead has announced how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be implemented from 2015.  Central to...

There will be some changes to the English cross-compliance rules when the new BPS starts in 2015.  Among these will...

DEFRA has published a new Factsheet giving details of the Greening rules.  However, this is not the long-awaited Ministerial announcement...

The NFU is to lobby DEFRA to permit new Sole Occupancy Authorities (SOAs) to be set-up and is asking for...

The decline in the area of organic land in the UK continued in 2013.  According to the latest statistics from...

We have updated our Greening Factsheet - this provides a summary of our current understanding. It is likely to be...