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27 March 2025
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered the Spring Statement on 26 March 2025, updating Parliament and the nation on the economy, public finances, and economic objectives.
26 February 2025
On 11 December 2024 Defra published the UK Food Security Report for 2024. This government are committed to publishing a report on food security in the UK every three years, this is the second update.
7 March 2025
After 25 years of negotiations, the EU and Mercosur have reached an agreement for a historic trade deal. The deal will see tariff reductions and quotas in key sectors as well as introducing mechanisms for tariff disputes. The
5 February 2025
Trump has announced that the US will impose import tariffs on Mexico and Canada and increase those on Chinese goods. He has also said that tariffs on products from the EU would “definitely happen”, whilst a deal could be worked out with the UK.
27 January 2025
At the beginning of 2024 the Welsh Government asked for consultation responses to the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS). Based on consultation responses and stakeholder discussion the proposed scheme outline was published at the end of 2024.
16 December 2024
On Sunday 15 December 2024, the UK acceded to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
22 November 2024
The agricultural policy landscape is changing in the UK as government policy evolves. This analysis examines the long-term economic influences of these changes on the beef and lamb sectors.
18 November 2024
Since the budget was released there has been considerable headlines given to the implications of the changes on inheritance tax. These are far-reaching and complex, and it is difficult to provide a single impact assessment given the complexity of farm business ownership models.
27 December 2024
SFI uptake data published in May quelled fears that large amounts of productive land are being entered into the scheme. Defra has since released further information on SFI uptake which reveals higher SFI uptake but no major shifts.
3 December 2024
The Budget was announced on 30th October 2024. Following this, Defra released more details on what this means for farmers. As part of this, information has been released on delinked payments in 2025.
16 October 2024
Consumer price Inflation, (CPI) dropped to 1.7% in September according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), down from 2.2% in August 2024, and well below its recent peak of 11.1% in October 2022.
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10 January 2025
Insights into how farm input costs have increased over the past five years.