Month of publication |
Brief description of topics covered |
November 2019 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Annual sheep and goat inventory
- Farming rules for water - getting full value from fertilisers and soil
- Have you checked your Nitrate Vulnerable Zone designation recently?
- Sign up to FAS services
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September 2019 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Farming is changing: guidance published
- Protecting soils post-harvest
- Water primrose alert
- Legal requirements that pesticide users should be aware of
- Integrated pest management
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Farming rules for water - getting full value from fertilisers and soil requirements
- Have you checked your Nitrate Vulnerable Zone designation recently?
- Greening - catch and cover crop requirements
- Water abstraction information
- Sign up to FAS services
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July 2019 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Getting in contact with the advice line
- Accessing Basic Payment Scheme and cross compliance guidance
- Complying with the cross compliance rules
- Protecting your soil post-harvest
- Important greening reminders
- Don't forget, restrictions on tree and hedge-cutting are in place until September
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Farming rules for water
- When did you last check to see if your land is within a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone?
- Water abstraction information
- Sign up to FAS services
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April 2019 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Basic Payment Scheme application for 2019
- Don't forget, restrictions on tree and hedge-cutting are in place until September
- Need to fell some trees? Branch out and try Felling Licence Online
- Important greening reminders
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone requirements
- Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier events to support applicants
- Livestock registration, identification and movements
- Bovine TB Advisory Service
- Farming rules for water
- Water abstraction information
- Sign up to FAS services
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February 2019 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Accessing Basic Payment Scheme and cross compliance guidance
- Cross compliance 2019 update
- FAS cross compliance webinar: avoiding common issues in 2019
- Understanding who is liable for cross compliance
- Greening 2019 - reminder of requirements
- Are you complying with the farming rules for water?
- Legal requirements that pesticide users should be aware of
- Integrated pest management
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - reminders
- Forthcoming hedge and tree-cutting closed period - are you prepared?
- Silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil (SSAFO) storage
- Keep up to date on public rights of way requirements
- Water abstraction information
- Sign up to FAS services
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December 2018 |
- How can FAS help you?
- Key dates
- Accessing Basic Payment Scheme and cross compliance guidance
- Cross compliance and greening 2019 update
- Annual sheep and goat inventory
- Water abstraction update
- New Authorisations (previously exempt abstraction activities)
- Certification requirements for pesticide users and testing of application equipment
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones updates
- Sign up to FAS services
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October 2018
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There have been several new or updated Farming Advice Service (FAS) resources released during the summer that you may have missed. This special edition of the newsletter has a particular focus on these resources to help keep you up to date. It also provides the usual forthcoming key dates for cross compliance and greening. |
August 2018 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Livestock registration and identification
- New guidance released regarding the dry weather conditions
- Integrated pest management
- Greening reminders
- Are you complying with the farming rules for water?
- Don't forget the restrictions on tree and hedge-cutting rules are in place until September
- Buffer strip management
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Bovine TB Advisory Service
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Sign up to FAS services
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June 2018 |
- How can FAS help you?
- Key dates
- Are you complying with the farming rules for water?
- Greening 2018
- Don't forget the restrictions on tree and hedge-cutting rules are in place until September
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Water abstraction licence reminders
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) information
- Sign up to FAS services
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March 2018 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- New farming rules announced that aim to protect water quality
- Cross compliance update - what is new for 2018?
- Avian influenza (bird flu) update
- Tree and hedge-cutting rules for 2018
- Requirement to inspect pesticide application equipment
- Greening 2018
- Keeping updated on public rights of way requirements
- Silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil (SSAFO) storage
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) reminders
- Water abstraction licence reminders
- The Government's Water Abstraction Plan
- Changes to water abstraction exemptions
- Initial prospects for spray irrigation
- Sign up to FAS services
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December 2017 |
- How can FAS help you?
- Key dates
- Cross compliance 2018
- Greening 2018
- New farming rules announced that aim to protect water quality
- Annual sheep and goat inventory
- Water abstraction licence reminder
- Changes to water abstraction exemptions
- The Government's Water Abstraction Plan
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) reminders
- Sign up to FAS services
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October 2017 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Greening 2018
- Water abstraction licence reminders
- Public rights of way requirements
- Annual sheep and goat inventory
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Sign up to FAS services
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August 2017 |
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Greening 2018
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Keeping updated on public rights of way requirements
- Requirement to inspect pesticide application equipment
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil (SSAFO) storage
- Sign up to FAS services
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June 2017 |
- How can FAS help you?
- Key dates
- Cross compliance inspections
- How to meet the tree and hedge-cutting rules, and applying for a derogation
- What is meant by catch and cover crops?
- Buffer strip management
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Water abstraction licence reminders
- Livestock registration and identification
- Sign up to FAS services
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April 2017 |
- How can FAS help you?
- Key dates
- Cross compliance soil management requirements
- Requirement to inspect pesticide application equipment
- Tree and hedge-cutting rules for 2017
- Basic Payment Scheme update
- Water abstraction returns
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Environmental impact assessment
- Countryside Stewardship claims
- Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier events for applicants
- Greening requirements for 2017
- Sign up to FAS services
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February 2017 |
- Cross compliance 2017 update
- Key dates
- Cross compliance inspections
- The latest measures to protect poultry and other captive birds against avian influenza (bird flu)
- Tree and hedge-cutting rules for 2017
- Anticoagulant rodenticides and biocides legislation
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Greening requirements for 2017
- Silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil storage
- Sign up to FAS services
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December 2016 |
- Cross compliance 2017 update
- Key dates
- How can FAS help you?
- Greening requirements for 2017
- Cross compliance soil management requirements
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- New measures to protect poultry and other captive birds against bird flu
- Farming Ammonia Reduction Grant scheme
- Annual sheep and goat inventory
- Top tips for livestock keepers
- Sign up to FAS services
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November 2016 |
- How can FAS help you?
- Key dates
- Keeping public rights of way free from obstructions
- Important information on greening rules
- Water abstraction licence expiry
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Inspection of pesticide application equipment is required from November 2016
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign up to FAS services
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September 2016 |
- What is FAS?
- Key dates
- FAS has joined the Rural Services Helpline
- Preparing for 2017 greening calculations
- What is meant by EFA catch or cover crops?
- Less than three months left to get your pesticide application equipment inspected
- Choosing the right way to protect your soils post-harvest
- Field margin management
- Keeping updated on public rights of way requirements
- Water abstraction licence reminders
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) reminders
- Countryside Stewardship
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign up to FAS services
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July 2016
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- What is FAS?
- Key dates
- Simplification of livestock movements
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Bovine TB (bTB)
- Cross compliance inspections
- Hedge and tree cutting and trimming closed period
- What is meant by catch and cover crops?
- Sheep Dip Groundwater Protection Code
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Spray equipment testing
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) reminders
- Abstraction licence reminders
- Countryside Stewardship clinics
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
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May 2016 |
- What is FAS?
- Key dates
- Changes relating to bovine TB (bTB)
- Water quality
- Public rights of way
- Field margin management
- Tree and hedge-cutting rules for 2016
- Cross compliance soil management requirements
- Important information for those using pesticides
- Water abstraction - returns reminder
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Greening rules for 2016
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
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April 2016 |
- What is FAS?
- Key dates
- Basic Payment Scheme - update
- Changes relating to bovine TB (bTB)
- Water quality
- Public rights of way
- Field margin management
- Tree and hedge-cutting rules for 2016
- Cross compliance soil management requirements
- Important information for those using pesticides
- Water abstraction returns - reminder
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Greening rules in 2016
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
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February 2016
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- What is FAS?
- Key dates
- Where to find guidance on the greening rules
- Cross compliance 2016 - update
- Tree and hedge-cutting rules for 2016
- Cross compliance soil management requirements
- Rules for septic tanks and small sewage treatment plants
- Silage Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil (SSAFO) Storage
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Advice on the use of metaldehyde slug pellets
- 'Grandfather rights' rules no longer exist for professional pesticide use
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
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December 2015 |
- What is FAS?
- Cross compliance 2016 - update
- Cross compliance soil management requirements
- Don't forget to complete your annual sheep & goat inventory
- Important information on the greening rules
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- 'Grandfather Rights' ceased in November 2015
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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October 2015 |
- What is FAS?
- Important information on the greening rules
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Abstraction licence expiry
- 'Grandfather Rights' will no longer exist from November 2015
- Requirement to get spray equipment tested - one year to go
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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August 2015
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- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Remember to establish your catch crops and cover crops
- Field Margin Management
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Public rights of way
- Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier
- Abstraction licence reminders
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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June 2015
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- New tree cutting and trimming rules for 2015
- What is meant by catch crops and cover crops?
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- New rules for septic tanks and small sewage treatment plants
- Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Integrated Pest Management - are you complying with the requirements?
- Animal welfare requirements under cross compliance
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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April 2015
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- Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) 2015 - action required
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) reminders
- Water abstraction returns - reminder
- Important information for those using pesticides
- Strengthened TB testing rules to be extended from 1 January 2015 - reminder
- Soil management requirements for 2015: important changes
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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February 2015 |
- The latest information on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2015
- Cross compliance update
- Farming Advice Service in 2015
- Important changes to soil management requirements
- Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) - what you should do now
- Changes to Statutory Management Requirement (SMR) 7 - cattle identification and registration
- EIA (Agriculture) regulations
- Strengthened TB testing rules to be extended from 1 January 2015 - reminder
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone reminders
- Hedgerow and tree cutting rules
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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December 2014 |
- Farming Advice Service in 2015
- Cross compliance update
- Important changes to soil management requirements
- The latest information on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Funded Training available via Defra’s National Skills Framework
- Forthcoming events
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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November 2014 |
- Farming Advice Service in 2015
- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) update: October 2014
- Soil management requirements in 2015
- Changes to identification and reporting rules for sheep (and goats) from 2015
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) grassland derogation
- Abstraction licence expiry
- Forthcoming FAS events
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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September 2014 |
- Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) update: August 2014
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Abstraction licence reminders
- Avoiding overgrazing and supplementary feeding damage of semi-natural vegetation
- Public rights of way
- Protecting your soils post-harvest
- Forthcoming FAS event
- Sign-up to FAS services
- Key dates
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July 2014 |
- CAP update
- E-reporting database for sheep (aRAMs)
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Bovine electronic identification
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- FAS activity
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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April 2014 |
- Change to FAS telephone number
- Single Payment Scheme (SPS) forms available for 2014
- Updated guidance for SPS claimants affected by adverse weather
- E-reporting database for sheep (aRAMs)
- PLANET software update
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Soil Protection Review (SPR) - choosing the correct environmental option
- CAP update
- Water abstraction returns - reminder
- Farm Recovery Fund
- Frequently asked questions (FAQs) to the FAS helpline during March
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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February 2014 |
- Soil Protection Review (SPR) - what will you be required to do in 2014
- Strengthened TB testing
- Access to waterlogged land
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) reminders
- Water resources (control of pollution) (silage, slurry and agricultural fuel oil) (England) Regulations 2010 and as amended 2013 (SSAFO) is now part of cross compliance
- Reporting sheep and goat movements electronically from April 2014
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system (HACCP) guidance
- Water abstraction consultation launched
- Hedge laying/need for felling approval
- Funding
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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December 2013 |
- Changes to Cross Compliance for 2014
- Soil Protection Review (SPR) - what you will be required to do in 2014
- Remember to complete your SPR for 2013 by 31 December
- Joint Industry and Government Slurry Management and Storage Project
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) guidance update - November 2013
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - grassland derogation reminder
- Slurry storage requirements - how are your plans coming along?
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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October 2013 |
- Soil Protection Review - what you will be required to do in 2014
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) - grassland derogation
- Slurry stores in NVZ
- Water abstraction - returns reminder
- Increasing requirement for sulphur in fertiliser programmes
- Defra inspection guidance
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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August 2013 |
- Cutting farm costs by improving water efficiency
- Cross Compliance and game management
- Cross Compliance and Environmental Impact Assessment
- Water Framework Directive (WFD) - consultation update
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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June 2013 |
- The Guide to Cross Compliance in England has been updated
- Updated nitrates regulations
- Improved Environment Information: Have Your Say
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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April 2013 |
- Water abstraction licences
- Opportunities to partner with FAS
- Updated Cattle Identification Regulations
- Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) record keeping - are you up to date?
- NVZ changes in 2013
- Review of environmental advice, incentives, partnership approaches for the farming sector in England
- Put your tractors on a diet!
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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February 2013 |
- Important changes to Cross Compliance for 2013
- Managing and remediating damage to soil
- Strengthened TB cattle control measures introduced from January 2013
- Slurry storage requirements - are you being compliant?
- Update on nitrate issues
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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December 2012 |
- Remember to complete your Soil Protection Review (SPR) by 31 December
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations review
- Important changes to Cross Compliance for 2013
- Nitrate derogation for 2013 - Defra update
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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November 2012 |
- Remember to update your Soil Protection Review (SPR) access to waterlogged land record
- Do you hold a time-limited abstraction licence? Act now to protect your right to abstract water
- Farming in extreme weather conditions
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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October 2012 |
- Sheep identification and movement guidance
- Manure management after the exceptionally wet summer
- Key information about cattle identification
- Available nitrogen in slurry and poultry manure - why are the values in RB209 different from NVZ guidance?
- Forthcoming events
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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July 2012 |
- Nutrient Management: understanding your options
- Strengthened cattle controls to help eradicate bovine TB
- Proposed NVZ boundaries are now available to view from the Defra website
- Attending a FAS event?
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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April 2012 |
- Risk maps are not just for NVZs - GAEC 19
- NVZs: Assessing compliance with NMax limits
- Think twice before converting permanent pasture
- Cross compliance failures for 2011 published
- Sign up to FAS services
- Key dates
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