Schemes
BPS payment exchange rate set for 2018
The euro exchange rate for calculating Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2018 payments has been set, the Department for Environment, Food...
Agri Politics
Beef
'Never a more important time' for unity among Welsh meat stakeholders
Future Welsh Government policy must ensure the continued supply of a critical mass of top-quality PGI Welsh Beef and Lamb,...
Agri Politics
NFU Scotland seeks members' views on AHDB consultation
NFU Scotland is consulting members on their views of AHDB as the UK Government examines the continuing need for the...
Agri Politics
Welsh tenant farmers ponder Government proposals - and consequences
A special event was held by NFU Cymru for tenant farmers to consider the potential implications of the Welsh Government’s...
Environment
Food waste tackled in new Reduction Roadmap initiative
The Food Waste Reduction Roadmap has received full backing from the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), which has encouraged its members...
Agri Politics
No-deal Brexit would be 'catastrophic' for UK farming - NFU
Technical notices released yesterday (Monday, September 24) confirm farmers’ fears that a no-deal Brexit scenario would have devastating impacts for...
EU
May stands firm on Brexit impasse
Following the events in Salzburg last week, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has come out swinging, defending her Chequers plan...
Schemes
Welsh farmers need RDP clarification - NFU Cymru
Urgent clarification is being sought over the deployment of Wales Rural Development Programme (RDP) funding, according to the Welsh National...
Agri-Business
Agriculture Bill 'effectively a notice period' for British farmers
Former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has warned the Government’s Agriculture Bill plans British agriculture are effectively a “notice period” for farmers...
Agri Politics
Politicians to experience harvest in the driving seat
The National Farmers’ Union is bringing the best of British farming to political party conferences this year…and even putting politicians...
Agri Politics
'Seismic' shift in farm support will mean rewriting budgets
The “seismic shift” in farm support announced earlier this week will mean rewriting budgets and forecasts for thousands of family...
Agri Politics
'Monumental consultation' launched for Welsh farmers
The head of one of Wales’ farming unions has pleaded for farmers who want to see a “prosperous industry after...
Agri Politics
Teenagers have their say in direction of farming industry
Over 60 teenagers from across the UK came together on Wednesday, September 12, to debate issues around farming and to...
Arable
Conservative MEP slams ‘misleading’ EU pesticides report
A conservative agricultural spokesperson, has spoken out against a report on pesticides which she says “misrepresents” the findings of the...
Agri-Business
Batters calls for ability to 'pause' transition from direct payments
New farming legislation favouring support for environmental efforts as opposed to production will leave British farmers forced to compete internationally,...
Agri Politics
140 MPs show support for farming on Back British Farming Day
140 politicians showed their support for the British farming industry today by wearing a Back British Farming wheat-pin badge in...
Agri-Business
Government’s plans for agriculture 'lack balance'
The Government’s new Agriculture Bill has been criticised as “lacking balance” by an organisation representing tenant farmers. Tenant Farmers Association...
Agri Politics
Countryside Alliance reveals its 5-point post-Brexit aims
The Countryside Alliance has outlined what it believes should be the key aspects in a new British agricultural policy to...
