Members Only 29 July 2024 Defra Farm Viability Modelling One criticism of Defra, from the National Audit Office (NAO), in the recent review of the Farming and Countryside Programme To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 The Farming & Countryside Programme The need to provide a clearer indication of the direction of travel with Environmental Land Management schemes, is one of To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 Beef Market Outlook Since the beginning of June, clean cattle prices have stabilised and are now back above year-earlier levels. In 2023 prices To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 New National Park: Scotland The Scottish Government has selected Galloway as its preferred site for Scotland’s third National Park. Galloway, which beat Lochaber, Loch To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 Nature-Friendly Farming Budget A report commissioned by the RSPB, National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts reveals that the UK Government needs to significantly To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 Friesian Farm Profitability figures from our Friesian Farm model are shown in the table below. This is a notional 220+ cow business To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 UK Farm Assurance The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and AHDB, along with NFU Cymru, The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) and NFU Scotland (NFUS) To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 Future Support: Wales The Welsh Government has given more detail to farmers as to which schemes which will be available in 2025. Readers To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 29 July 2024 Biodiversity Net Gain The Planning Advisory Service (PAS) has made available a range of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) templates. The PAS, a branch To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 18 July 2024 Kings Speech The new Labour administration set out its legislative priorities in the King’s Speech on 17th July. Over 35 potential Bills To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 12 July 2024 English TIFF Defra has released figures for English farm profits. These show a slightly different picture to the UK figures we reported To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 10 July 2024 New Government Following its landslide victory in the General Election on 4th July, the new Labour administration is starting to bed-in. In To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 5 July 2024 Scottish Suckler Calving Interval The Scottish Government has confirmed that a maximum calving interval requirement will be introduced for the 2025 Scottish Suckler Beef Support To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
4 July 2024 SFI 2024 – Changes to SFI 2023 Actions In our article last month which reported on the expanded 2024 offer, we said the 23 SFI 2023 actions would...
4 July 2024 Farm Profits UK farming made surprisingly good profits in 2023 according to Defra. The Department has recently released figures for Total Income...
Members Only 1 July 2024 Laying Hen Housing Grant The Laying Hen Housing for Health and Welfare Grant is now open for applications. The online checker is available until To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 June 2024 Sugar Price Warning The NFU Sugar Board has warned that the contract price for the 2025 crop (2025-26 contract) is unlikely to be To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 June 2024 Grain Markets Prices for feed grains have fallen considerably throughout June, pressured by improved global conditions. The value of UK feed wheat To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 27 June 2024 Pig Market Both the EU-Spec SPP and APP experienced big losses in the week ending June 8th. The SPP fell by 1.2p To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 25 June 2024 Potato Update The UK is likely to have another sub-five million tonne potato crop this year, according to projections from newsletter World To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 25 June 2024 Dairy Update The AHDB has revised it’s GB milk production for the 2024/25 season down since its previous forecast in March. The To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 21 June 2024 Carbon Calculator Harmonisation Three of the main carbon calculators for farming have agreed to harmonise their methodologies. The Farm Carbon Toolkit, Cool Farm To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 20 June 2024 Funding for Endemic Livestock Diseases Defra has expanded its support to tackle endemic diseases in livestock. The previous Annual Health and Welfare review has been To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
Members Only 20 June 2024 Scottish Agriculture Bill The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill was passed into law by the Scottish Parliament on 18th June. Royal Assent To access this post, you must purchase Professional Update Bulletin.
