BPS balance payments and full payments for those who have not received an advance will commence on 12 December 2024. Payments will be subject to completion of the full validation process.
Advance payments worth up to 70% of the anticipated final BPS 2024 claim value have been paid where it was possible to confirm claim eligibility, and all supporting documents had been received in time to make the payments.
The UK Government has released their annual report on Agriculture in the UK entitled ‘Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2023’.
The report and summary has many interesting facts and figures relating to everything from industry structure to price fluctuations in both inputs and outputs, how agriculture is performing 'agri-environmentally', average Farm Business Incomes, livestock prices, prices etc.
Two reports from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) and the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance (RUMA) have been published, revealing the UK's progress on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antibiotics sales.
The VMD's Veterinary Antibiotic Resistance and Sales Surveillance (VARSS) Report from the summary covers sales of antibiotics for food-producing animals and also the AMR monitoring programme in pigs and poultry.
As the closed period for spreading slurry on most Welsh farms kicks in (15 October), Huw Irranca-Davies, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, has announced plans to make short-term amendments to the Cross Compliance Verifiable Standards related to the Control of Agricultural Pollution ‘NVZ’ regulations.
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