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17 April 2024
In March 2024, annual food price inflation in the UK fell to 3.9%, down from 5% in February and well below the 19.6% a year earlier according to the latest Consumer Prices Index (CPI). Food price inflation remains ahead of overall CPI which was 3.2% for March 2024.
17 April 2024
With the latest data showing that not only is inflation falling in the UK, but also that the price of some food items including meat actually falling, speculation regarding when and by how much interest rates will start coming down is increasing.
15 April 2024
On 30 April, a tightening of the rules in the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) is set to come in for GB imports from the EU, after a ‘bedding in’ period.
24 April 2024
Defra have announced that there will be limits to the amount of land businesses are able to put into the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme. Businesses will only be able to put 25% of their land into the six land sparing SFI actions, those actions taking land out of food production.
24 April 2024
Food security is in the spotlight. There is increasing focus on food security due to global unrest, food shortages, climate change and other shocks such as the pandemic. More recently, at the NFU conference, the Prime Minister announced further commitments to food security reporting and funding for domestic production.
11 March 2024
With England’s farming industry in the middle of the Agricultural Transition, schemes are being expanded to pay farmers and land managers to provide environmental goods and services alongside food production.
4 March 2024
The Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has announced at the NFU Scotland’s spring conference that 70% of future support for Scottish farmers will be provided as direct payments.
29 January 2024
This week heralds the much delayed introduction of checks at the border good imported to the UK from the EU
23 February 2024
Further information regarding Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs) was announced at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference.
15 January 2024
See how stacking SFI options can boost income
6 July 2023
Defra have announced that the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2023 will be launched in August
16 June 2023
The second round of the Landscape Recovery scheme is open for applications, but how are farmers feeling about the major changes occurring in domestic agricultural policy, and what are their attitudes towards the scheme?