MEPS Vote On CAP Reforms


MEPS voted in Strasbourg yesterday (March 11th) at an Extraordinary General Meeting to whittle down around 330 amendments to Common ...

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Unity Over Greening


A group of farming organisations have joined forces to fight for a fairer deal on CAP reform and are urging ...

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NFU Conference This Week


With the National Farmers’ Union Conference starting tomorrow (February 27th) in Birmingham, this year farmers will be given a chance ...

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Rural Land Prices On The Rise


According to a report last week by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, rural land prices reached record levels in ...

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How The EU Budget Affects The CAP


The recent agreement on the European Union’s long-term budget for 2014-20 has opened the way for an agreement on Common ...

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Farm Payments Made Easier


Farming Minister David Heath announced recently that it will be quicker and easier to apply for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ...

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Dairy Fund Open


Dairy farmers should be aware that bids to a £5m fund for projects that will deliver ‘transformational change to multiple ...

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Vote On CAP Reform Proposals Begins


With the marathon CAP vote starting tomorrow (January 23rd) in the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee, British farmers are pinning their ...

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Debate on the Abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board


Ahead of the House of Lords debate tomorrow (January 16th 2013), which could determine the fate of the Agricultural Wages ...

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Don’t Second Guess CAP, Farmers Warned


Agriculture Committee member Mairead McGuinness warned farmers at last week's Oxford Farming Conference that they should not gamble on the ...

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