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Don't forget: Somerset & Avon Dairy Group meeting - this Wednesday!

Join us at Keynsham Rugby Club on Wednesday 17th January, to help build and discuss a new collaborative venture in addition to a bite to eat. 

In this meeting you will learn what the group is, how collaboration will benefit you and make your farm business more resilient, but more importantly – what members of the group will receive, including: 

Infrastructure reviews Environmental auditing Natural Capital Baselining And Cross Farm Collaboration

The services provided are initially supported and funded by the Future Farming Resilience Fund.  

This is a chance for farmers across the county to meet like-minded individuals, collaborate and learn…

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DEFRA January Update

Yesterday, DEFRA announced their latest publication regarding the Agricultural Transition Plan – this provides an update on DEFRA progress to date and their priorities and plans for the upcoming years. 

To support productivity, innovation and encourage more farmers to get involved with their schemes that work with food production and environmental targets, DEFRA are aiming to make their schemes and regulation more attractive, fair and workable. 

To help achieve this, DEFRA’s plans for 2024 include: 

1.An average 10% increase in payment rates for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and Countryside Stewardship (CS) to…

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Improving Farm Productivity Grants: Round 2

Did you miss out on the first round of the Improving Farm Productivity Grant? 

DEFRA has recently announced that the second round will soon be available to apply for, in the coming weeks ahead. 

The Improving Farm Productivity Grant is part of the Farming Investment Fund and is available to agricultural and arable businesses to support farmers in improving farm and horticulture productivity, providing grant funding towards specific capital items. 

Funded improvements will relate to: 

The use of robotic and automated equipment and systems to aid crop and livestock productionSolar equipment installation to increase energy resilience and the take-up of… Read More
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The Wiltshire Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution Carol Service

Fancy a sing-a-long in aid of a great cause? This year AKC are supporting The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution carol service. An evening of Christmas carols and refreshments at Salisbury Livestock Market. 

If you are interested in supporting this brilliant charity, see event details. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Lucy, James and Adam.

Southern Counties Farming and Machinery Show

Southern Counties Farming and Machinery Show – A brilliant day of meeting new faces, catching up with clients and learning about the latest in high-tech agricultural machinery.

If you missed us yesterday, stay tuned for our launch of next years list of shows we will be attending in 2024!

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Have you heard?

From 2024 the basic payment scheme will no longer be directly linked to holding eligible land and entitlements, instead payments will be based on an average of your historic payments during the reference years with the degressive percentages applied each year.

Every BPS recipient should receive a Delinked Payment statement by early December. Statements will be sent out in batches from early November. 

These statements will show the ‘reference data’ which will be used to calculate your payments from 2024 – 2027. 

The reference data being the BPS payments you received between: 2020-2022. 

It is important you check…

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Still unsure whether to apply for the SFI?

FREE WEBINAR: ' Making the SFI work for your farming business'

'Making the SFI work for your farming business'

FREE WEBINAR:

Thursday 23rd November 2023 at 10am

Are you considering applying for a Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) Agreement? Do you want to know how to make the SFI work for your farm business?

AKC are pleased to be working with Landmark Systems, to provide you a free webinar which will give you all the information you need to make and manage an SFI application. 

The webinar will cover:

A technical update on the SFI 2023 offerWhat to consider before applying for the SFI… Read More
Slurry Infrastructure Grant Round 2

Slurry Infrastructure Grant - Round 2 Now Available

DEFRA have announced they are going to launch the next round of the Slurry Infrastructure Grant in November. For full guidance on the new round click here. 

A webinar about the scheme will also be hosted by DEFRA on the 9th November 2023, to allow you to ask questions and discover more about round 2 of the grant. To attend this, please register here. 

About Round 2 

To help improve the use of organic nutrients on your farm and aid productivity and reduce pollution, DEFRA are offering grants between £25,000 and £250,000 to help improve your slurry storage. 

Since the first round, five new improvements have been made to the grant to encourage…

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Calf Housing for Health and Welfare Grant – Open - 7th September 2023

The Calf Housing for Health and Welfare grant is designed to increase the health and welfare of calves (up to 6 months old) through upgrading, building new or replacing existing calf housing buildings.

Grant funded housing must provide a good ambient environment, appropriate group housing, good air quality, temperature, and humidity within the building, allowing calves to grow effectively and minimise health issues within the group.

Successful projects are those that:

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Sustainable Farming Incentive Update

Application opens for early entrants from 18th September 2023

Businesses are invited to submit their expression of interest to participate in the initial roll out of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) from 18th September, prior to the scheme being rolled out to all eligible businesses.  

DEFRAs intention is to manage the roll out of the scheme and applications in a controlled and careful manor, ensuring all farmers and land managers are offered the right level of support.

If you would like to register your interest to be an early entrant, complete the form below.

Apply Here

Once DEFRA has received your completed expression…

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