Contents tagged with trade and policy

5 August 2024

Our analysis on the considers the competing uses of farmland with commercial crop production.

15 May 2024

Our response to Defra's new statistics release

15 May 2024

The agreement provides improved access into the EU market for New Zealand products.

15 May 2024

Trade of goods between the two was worth almost 9.1 billion euros in 2022.

15 May 2024

In March 2024, annual food price inflation in the UK fell to 3.9% according to the latest CPI.

17 April 2024

With the latest data showing that not only is inflation falling in the UK, but also that the price of some food items including meat actually falling, speculation regarding when and by how much interest rates will start coming down is increasing.

15 April 2024

On 30 April, a tightening of the rules in the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) is set to come in for GB imports from the EU, after a ‘bedding in’ period.

24 April 2024

Defra have announced that there will be limits to the amount of land businesses are able to put into the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme. Businesses will only be able to put 25% of their land into the six land sparing SFI actions, those actions taking land out of food production.

2 May 2024

Trade between the UK and Switzerland at a glance

24 April 2024

Food security is in the spotlight. There is increasing focus on food security due to global unrest, food shortages, climate change and other shocks such as the pandemic. More recently, at the NFU conference, the Prime Minister announced further commitments to food security reporting and funding for domestic production.

11 March 2024

With England’s farming industry in the middle of the Agricultural Transition, schemes are being expanded to pay farmers and land managers to provide environmental goods and services alongside food production.

4 March 2024

The final stage of the Welsh Government’s consultation regarding the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) is due to close on 07 March 2023. The proposal details the scope of the SFS, the actions involved, and how SFS payments will affect payments from the Basic Payment Scheme.

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