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Jeremy's Blog 5th January 2024: Power Cables for the New Economy

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As a striking achievement, the United Kingdom is now about halfway to its net zero target for 2050, the first G7 country to do so. With the lags in producing statistics, the headline territorial measure for UK-produced greenhouse gas emissions in 2022 has now been reported at 51 per cent of their level in 1990, lower than before the pandemic and expected to have fallen further in 2023. With much of this achieved by increased renewable energy reducing the share of fossil fuel in electricity...

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CAAV Note 240104: England's Agricultural Transition Plan Update

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Following an earlier note, this update provides more detail on the Secretary of State’s speech to the Oxford Farming Conference. Accompanied by the publication of the Agricultural Transition Plan Update and three years after the original Plan was issued, this sets out a substantial expansion of SFI and other measures phased in over 2024....

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Andrew Liddiment of near Leominster, Herefordshire referred himself to the CAAV’s disciplinary processes following a criminal conviction for sexual assault. The CAAV Executive, sitting as a Disciplinary Panel, reviewed all papers submitted and, as authorised for such a case under the Bylaws, determined that the seriousness of the matter for the reputation of a Fellow and of the Association warranted his expulsion from membership of the Association with immediate effect from 19th...

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CAAV Note 240104: OFC announcement and publication of the Agricultural Transition Plan

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Now three years into the Agricultural Transition and with payments delinked, the speech to the Oxford Farming Conference (see press release) by the new Secretary of State, Steve Barclay, was accompanied by the Agricultural Plan Transition Update, continuing to aim for a 70 per cent take of environmental land management agreements by farmers, while making other announcements is support of farming productivity. This note summarises the speech and is supported by the attached DEFRA papers....

SFI Applications Re-Open

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The end of year closure of the SFI Application Portal meant that all applications that had been started but not submitted by then are treated as withdrawn. The Application Portal has now re-opened. We understand that a number of applications have already been started using re-opened Portal and a small number of applications have now been submitted. This is seen to suggest that the system is again functional.

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CAAV Christmas Closure

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The CAAV office will close for Christmas at 1 p.m. on Friday 22nd December 2023 and re-open on Tuesday 2nd January 2024. May we take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.

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SFI - RPA Q&A

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Updated to V.54.0 on 22nd December 2023 The RPA has prepared a Sustainable Farming Incentive Q&A document, addressing some common questions about both the general nature of the scheme and some action-specific issues. The RPA's intention is to provide a common understanding of the purpose and requirements of aspects of the scheme. This is to be a 'living document'; it will change as new questions and issues arise and so should not be taken as a fixed and definitive guide. It should also be read...

Jeremy's Blog 22nd December 2023: The Year Turns

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This article by Jeremy Moody first appeared in the CAAV e-Briefing of 21st December 2023 With the winter solstice in the dark of early tomorrow morning, the year turns to bring 2023 to an end and open 2024 and all it might offer. The great feasts of lights, Jewish Hannukah followed by Christmas, shine out in the mid-winter, lights against the dark. From this autumn’s grey and rain sodden farmland of Britain to the grim war-fronts of south and east Ukraine, this matters for the hope and...

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231221: Wales - Cross Compliance for 2024

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The Welsh Government has confirmed that the vast majority of Cross Compliance for 2023 will continue to apply for 2024, with some amendments to Factsheets and associated sections of the Verifiable Standards which have been updated for 2024 to reflect changes in requirements, good practice and to clarify wording. See the Welsh Government website for more detail.

Delinked Payments: Check Information Statements

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As Members will be aware, BPS ends on 31st December 2023, succeeded by delinked payments managing the run-off funds of the scheme. For more background to the scheme, see our recent Podcast). Over the past month, farm businesses have received an Information Statement, setting out the basis on which their delinked payments would be calculated. A business’ reference data – the gross payment received across 2020, 2021 and 2022 – will be able to be transferred to another party in early 2024....

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CAAV BPS 2023 Payment Estimator

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Attached is the 2023 version of the CAAV BPS Payment Estimator to assist members with checking 2023 BPS payments in England. The CAAV can accept no liability for its use.

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