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Herbal leys bring fertility back to light Cotswold soils >More in Toby Baxters soil © MAG/David Jones Herbal leys are helping to return fertility to Toby Baxter’s light Cotswold limestone brashy soils, boosting his arable grain yields and allowing his livestock to thrive. The diverse temporary grass mix helps him finish 4,000 lambs annually without using a single pellet of concentrate feed, and he can cut nitrogen fertiliser on his su...

Direct payments to end in planned Welsh farm support scheme >More in © Tim Scrivener Intensive production systems on Welsh farms won’t be entitled to government subsidies once direct payments are phased out, a new Welsh government white paper on the future of farm support suggests. Published on Wednesday (16 December) the new Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) will encourage less-intensive land management practices from 2023, which the ...

Welsh government plans to end direct payments in 2022 16 December 2020 | The post-Brexit plans are being consulted on until 25 March 2021 Direct payments in Wales are set to end in 2022 and will be replaced with a new Sustainable Farming Scheme, according to new plans by the Welsh government. The White Paper on Agriculture in Wales, published on Wednesday (16 December), sets out proposals paving the way for an Agriculture (Wales) Bill, which will be introduced in the next Senedd term. The pape...

Opinion: Getting it right with ELM crucial to farming survival >More in © Adobe Stock Football, the late Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said, isn’t a matter of life and death; “it’s more serious than that”. The future Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme outlined in Defra’s Agricultural Transition Plan won’t be a matter of life and death either. It will be more serious than that. Time was, if an agri-environment s...

The MP for Copeland has formed a farming transition group aimed at supporting the local farming sector through the agricultural transition period. Following the the Government’s landmark Agriculture Bill receiving Royal Assent last month, Trudy Harrison MP has met with farmers and the NFU at Langley Park Farm in Waberthwaite to hear directly about their concerns and any challenges they face ahead of transitioning to the new payments system outside of the EU. Working with farmers and lan...

13 Dec 2020 ALL CHANGE: How the upper dale is farmed and managed will change as a result of the Government’s Path to Sustainable Farming plans The Government has set out its plan for farming and land management post-Brexit. The Path to Sustainable Farming will take seven years and involves the transformation of how the sector is financially supported. THE “most significant change to farming and land management in 50 years” will begin next year under plans unveiled by the Government last...

  It has been another positive week in terms of the Department of Agriculture rolling out vital payments under a number of schemes. Balancing payments comprising 15% of the total payment and worth €40m was paid into farmers bank accounts this week. There are still 10,000 farmers who are yet to receive payment, due primarily to possessing an insufficient stocking rate. The experience of recent years shows that in the region of 5,000 to 6,000 of these will not reach this stocking rate. Basic...

With the new CAP expected to come into force in 2023, EU approval has been secured for the extension of Irish farm schemes into next year.

There are big changes on the way for the Common Agricultural Policy. The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society (ITLUS) conference took place online this year due to Covid-19 restrictions. The focus of the event was the key changes in the next CAP and the new nitrates regulations. While “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”, we now have a good indication of some of the big changes coming in the next CAP, explained Francis Morrin of the Department of Agriculture. Participation in the...

The roll-out of the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) is set to continue in 2021 with nine more counties to be included next year.