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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!
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!
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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'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
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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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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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…
Read MoreThe funeral of Peter Ridout will be held at the Maryport Street Baptist Chapel in Devizes, where he served as a Deacon for many years, on Friday 8th September 2023 at 11.30 am.
The location of the Chapel is as follows and there are car parks nearby in the centre of Devizes.
Maryport Street Baptist Chapel Maryport Street Devizes Wiltshire United Kingdom SN10 1AH
https://www.maryportstreetbaptist.org.uk
AKC will be at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show next week on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th August 2023 on Stand C9. If you want to meet some of the team or perhaps have a question about changes in agricultural policy and new environmental land management schemes we will be happy to talk to you. We look forward to seeing you there! Where: Stand C9. Turnpike Showground, Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9PL
It is with sadness we record the passing of Peter Ridout on 27th July 2023. Peter had been unwell for some years but throughout this time he retained a positive outlook fighting illness with typical resolve. He will be greatly missed by all at AKC as well as by the many clients and friends made by him over a long career in the farm advisory industry.
Peter joined Denis Carter and AKC in 1973 and had been with the firm for almost 50 years. He became a Partner in AKC in 1998.
Dedicated and hard working Peter often went above and beyond the call of duty in supporting his clients with a personal service. An exceptional professional with a wealth of knowledge of the industry,…
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