Contents tagged with policy
25 March 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.
28 March 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?
3 March 2023
Now the regulated UK Emissions Trading Scheme is established, the UK government wants it to evolve to include greenhouse gas removals, potentially impacting farmers in future.
28 March 2023
On Monday 5th September Defra announced the successful projects that will receive funding through the Landscape Recovery scheme. The 22 projects are across England and aim to restore rivers, and protect species and habitats. T
31 January 2023
My thinking about the direction of travel of carbon markets and the importance of natural capital