This week’s Common Agricultural Policy reform announcements begin to fill in some of the detail around the steps English farmers will have to take to meet the new EU-wide greening requirements from 2015. Details of the new requirements were made …
The team on the CAP Reform stand had a really good day at the Cereals Show near Royston on Wednesday and were back on Thursday for another sunny session with farmers and agents, showing them the new online application and …
Senior staff from the Defra-led Common Agricultural Policy Delivery Programme, tasked with developing and introducing the new online application and payment service for all CAP schemes, called CAP Information Service, visited Forestry Commission England on 30 May to get a …
New EU Common Agricultural Policy regulations, negotiated last year, mean that farmers must ensure five per cent of their land is set aside from farming as an Ecological Focus Area (EFA) to receive their full payment under the Basic Payment …
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Delivery Programme’s Customer Insight team works with a range of people to show them the new online CAP application and payment service, called CAP Information Service, and get their feedback on how to improve it. …
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 …