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Northern Ireland’s new agriculture minister Edwin Poots has confirmed that farmers there will share £293 million in direct payments for the 2020 scheme…
Two re-purposed shipping containers, fitted with a ‘Farmony’ – 55m² in size, can produce 55,000 heads of lettuce per year or 408 trays of…
A stable budget for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2021 – and beyond – is essential for European farmers, according to European…
The establishment of the US Domestic Hemp Production Program was announced this week by the US secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue. Commenting on…
More than 3,600 farmers are set to benefit from £22 million of productivity-boosting equipment from round two of the Government’s Countryside Productivity Small…
The European Parliament’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee has completed its second hearing of the Polish candidate for the agriculture portfolio, Janusz Wojciechowski,…
The proposals for reforming the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) may yet be referred back to the EU Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural…
A ‘Farm Carbon Scheme’ that would see farmers being rewarded for making efforts to voluntarily cut their carbon emissions has been suggested by…
UK farmers can budget for 2019 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments to be worth about the same amount as last year. Under the…
When it comes to agriculture and climate action the focus – with regard to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – needs to be on…
Apart from workers here having to apply for certain status [because of Brexit] there is now also the economic viability of actually working…
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced that the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) Wider Level will open for applications…
Improved satellite imagery can remove the need for farm audits, according to a senior researcher for the European Commission. Vladimir Sucha was speaking…
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as welcomed the announcement that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will begin making bridging payments for…
Farmers in Northern Ireland may be in a position to continue receiving EU payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) until the end…
The Tenant Farmers’ Association (TFA) has said that the performance of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) “must improve”, and is calling for bridging…
Farmers in the midlands have until January 31 to apply for an environmental grant of up to £5,000. Dr. Jodie Rettino, Severn Trent Catchment…
Over £80 million of funding has been granted for environmental farm support programmes in Wales, Environment Secretary Lesley Griffith announced today. The funding package…
