Common Agricultural Policy

The AHDB has modelled two Brexit scenarios, UK-EU free trade area and WTO UK tariffs: Assessment report Farm business income drops under b...

The United States is playing hardball on agricultural trade as part of any future US-UK trade deal after Brexit. Last week the office of th...

A vibrant and innovative food movement is growing in Wales and there could be new opportunities post Brexit. But is England holding Wales b...

Recent events may give the impression that a no deal Brexit is off the table, but it may merely have been postponed until the end of June. ...

Addressing the NFU conference yesterday, Michael Gove made it clear that a no deal Brexit would be highly damaging for UK agriculture. Tari...

With Brexit uncertainty continuing, this analysis by well-known authors looks at the risks associated with Brexit for farming and the agri-f...

The Government's intention to switch to public goods payments for farmers after Brexit may fall foul of the poor record of implementatio...

The text of Michael Gove's speech to the Oxford Farming Conference: Defra Secretary He comments, 'I cannot, here, entirely pre-emp...

What contribution does the CAP make to farming resilience? An in depth report on the subject: Resilience Assessment The resilience of far...

Global sales of liquid milk from cows fell by 3.5 per cent in the five years to 2017 and one factor has been the growing popularity of plant...

Dieter Helm from Oxford University in a video presentation of policy options for agricultural policy after Brexit: Dieter Helm He argues t...

The Food Research Collaboration has produced a briefing paper on pesticides policy after Brexit: Pesticides at a crossroads It is noted, ...

The question of how farm funding should be divided up across the UK after Brexit has been a thorny political issue, not least because the Sc...

The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s Scrutiny of the Agriculture Bill report is calling on the Government to...

The very complexity of the Common Agricultural Policy provides opportunities for fraudsters. One recalls that a British farmer claimed for ...

This is not the first time the Court of Auditors has criticised the CAP and it probably won't be the last, given that its findings are g...

The nature of WTO negotiations is changing, argued Professor Fiona Smith in her inaugural lecture at Leeds Law School last night. The agricu...

Some of the claims made in relation to Brexit do seem to be exaggerated, particularly when one considers that we do not know what the final ...

Reports on food and farming keep appearing. The latest is from the Royal Society of Arts and this is just a halfway stage report: Our Comm...

The House of Lords European Union Committee has produced a report on plant and animal biosecurity after Brexit: Publication The report not...