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Favourable exchange rate boosts 2008 Single Farm Payment
A favourable exchange rate means this year’s Single Farm Payment will be worth more than last year for most farmers, it has been announced
01 October 2008
DEFRA launches new website to show farmers' payments
A web service which enables people to search through the list of support payments made to individual farm businesses has been launched by DEFRA.
30 September 2008
Rural Payments Agency criticised for causing problems for farmers
The Rural Payments Agency has been criticised by MPs for its "poor implementation" of the Single Payment Scheme.
15 July 2008
GB to pay back £55m to Brussels
The British government is having to pay back some €69.4m (£55.5m) in EU money to Brussels, following earlier failures to determine accurately the area eligible for arable payments.
09 July 2008
South west hill farmers living on the edge
Hill farmers in the south-west of England face an uncertain future as Brussels prepares to make further cuts to their support payments as part of its CAP "health check".
25 June 2008
Scots consult on CAP health check
NFU Scotland is consulting its members on what form the CAP should take as a result of the EU Commission's "health check".
20 June 2008
English farmers treated like 'second class citizens'
English farmers are being treated as "second class citizens", according to Liberal Democrat rural affairs spokesman Roger Williams, given that they still have to wait far longer than anyone else in the UK for their single farm payments.
17 June 2008
Farmers debate subsidies, the press and the rising costs of production
The CAP health check has sparked debate among farmers about the future of subsidies, how the press portray farmers and the rising costs of production. Read what farmers say and join the debate...
22 May 2008
Mixed reaction to CAP health check proposals
Mariann Fischer Boel's "health check" proposals take the common agricultural policy in the right direction, but do not go far enough in eliminating the potential for different treatment for farmers across Europe, warns the NFU.
20 May 2008
EU Commission publishes CAP 'health check'
Increased rates of modulation, an end to set-aside, increases in milk quota and the phasing out of more production-linked support payments are contained in the CAP "health check" proposals, presented in Strasbourg on Tuesday afternoon (20 May).
20 May 2008
Fischer Boel CAP health check on the way
EU farm commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel is due to present her formal legal proposals for the health check of the CAP in Strasbourg later today (Tuesday).
20 May 2008
