The Farmer Information Group is a Defra-hosted forum where key industry stakeholders and the different parts of Defra work together to establish how best to coordinate and improve communications with Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) customers in England – farmers, land …
Coming from both sides of the England/Scotland border, a steady flow of cattle and dairy farmers are braving the heavy rain in Hexham, Northumberland to hear the latest on CAP Reform, Catchment Sensitive Farming and cattle movements today at Beef …
Barry Mann is the Rural Payments Agency shows and events manager This year we are attending many more agricultural shows and events, giving us the chance to meet our customers and share information on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform. …
Mike Payne is CAP Delivery Programme’s Technical Delivery Manager I work for the Government Digital Service and am helping Defra to realise the Government’s digital strategy, which in short means delivering digital services that meet users’ needs. I’ve been …
Defra recently announced that it was ‘moving money up the hill’ – increasing per hectare payments to moorland farmers by about £26, or nearly 90%, from next year. These payments will support farmers who work in some in of England’s …
By Judy on the Defra CAP Insight team As part of the CAP Information Service’s Customer Insight team, it’s my role to understand users’ needs and help the programme understand who the service users are and what that means for digital and …
Thousands of people involved in farming, wildlife preservation and rural businesses have recently received more details about how they might benefit from £15 billion in EU funding over the new CAP period. Defra, working with the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), …