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Greening criteria announced for new Ecological Focus Areas

Posted by: Eloise Munday, Posted on: 10 June 2014 - Categories: CAP Reform

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 …

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The importance of feedback

Posted by: Eloise Munday, Posted on: 5 June 2014 - Categories: CAP Reform

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. …

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CAP Information Service: getting up to speed

Posted by: Eloise Munday, Posted on: 23 May 2014 - Categories: CAP Reform

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 …

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Reporting back...from Beef Expo

Posted by: Eloise Munday, Posted on: 22 May 2014 - Categories: CAP Reform

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 …

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