EU Dairy Scheme: £150m European farmers

The European Commission has confirmed a new package of measures, including an EU-wide scheme to incentivise a reduction in milk production worth 12p/litre, which will be paid to producers on the basis they commit to reducing production compared with last year across a three-month period.

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Rostons App Launch

It’s here! The new Rostons App has been launched and is available to download for free on both Google Play or iTunes, meaning you are only ever a click away from essential agricultural news in our area.

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Hywel Joins The Rostons Team

Hywel Davies has joined Cheshire based Rural Surveyors Rostons. Hywel from Llandyrnog, near Denbigh, North Wales has graduated from Harper Adams University after studying BSc Rural Enterprise and Land Management.

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Rostons Press Release – Hedge Cutting Derogation 2016

Rostons have recently been successful in applying for a Cross Compliance Derogation under GAEC7a that provides landowners with permission to cut or trim hedges in August this year. This is usually a time when hedge cutting is restricted, but Carys Studley of Rostons comments that “should landowners intend to sow oil seed rape on land parcels that they claim Basic Payment on, a Derogation can be applied for”. There is also a Derogation available for sowing temporary grass.

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