Employer Pays Principle Feasibility Study Released
The Employer Pays Principle Feasibility Study, within the Horticulture Value Chain was commissioned and funded jointly by Defra and the Seasonal Worker Scheme T...
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2024 Seasonal Worker Defra Survey Released
This document provides a summary of results from a survey of workers who were issued Seasonal Worker visas and came to work in the UK during 2024. The purpose o...
Red Tractor seeks Fresh Produce Board Chair
Red Tractor is seeking to appoint a new Chair for the Fresh Produce Board. In this role the successful candidate will engage equally with sector board members a...
GlobalGAP Public Consultation for Produce Handling Assurance (PHA) version 2
GlobalGAP has opened the public consultation for version 2 of the GLOBALG.A.P. Produce Handling Assurance (PHA) standard, which will run from 19 May–16 June 202...
Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging: Four Nations Policy Statement
Defra, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government, and DAERA in Northern Ireland published a Joint Policy Statement on Extended Producer Responsibility for pac...
Reminder for legal obligation for workplaces to segregate waste for 31 March 25
A reminder that from 31 March, many workplaces - including businesses and non-domestic premises - will have a legal obligation to separate recycling and food ...
Looking for an AI PhD student to help solve a sustainability problem?
There is a current collaboration between University of Lincoln, University of Aberdeen, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Strathclyde that forms ...
Chance to participate in Environmental Improvement Plan review
As you may know, last summer Defra’s Secretary of State announced a review of the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP23). We are developing a new, statutory pla...
Take part in the Employer Pays Principle Feasibility Study - Deadline 28th Feb
The Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce is reaching out on behalf of Alma Economics to share an invitation to take part in a survey of horticulture growers as part...
Government launches “national conversation” on land use
The Government has launched a consultation on a new approach to Land Use empowering decision makers with the toolkit to protect the most productive agricultural...
NFU / AHDB Farm Assurance Review Published today
The first UK-wide, comprehensive review of farm assurance has called for a fundamental reset of the system to rebuild confidence amongst farmers. The review, es...
Neonicotinoids - Future Restrictions
The Government has set out its next steps, including identifying legislative options that would legally prevent the future use of three specific neonicotinoids ...
Govt commit £15m to farm surplus redistribution
A new £15 million government scheme will provide grants to the not-for-profit food redistribution sector to strengthen links between farms and charities. The fu...
Defra published IPM Guidance for UK growers
To help farmers, growers and land managers adopt different IPM approaches, Defra published a new guidance page on GOV.UK. This post includes a link to the new g...
Grocery Code Adjudicator Presentation October 2024
The slides from the recent GCA Annual Conference held on 1st October have been published and can be found here: 2024 GCA conference You Gov slides. There is a c...
Plastic Packaging Tax increase from 1 April 2025
On 30 October, the Chancellor announced in the Budget that the rate of Plastic Packaging Tax (PPT) will increase in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Th...
UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to be introduced 1 Jan 2027
Today the Govt issued a response to the UK carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) ‘introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)’ alongside ...
Seasonal Worker visa numbers released for horticulture
The Seasonal Worker visa route has been confirmed today for 2025, with a total of 43,000 Seasonal Worker visas available for horticulture and 2,000 for poultry ...
EU Deforestation Regulation proposal for delay
The EU Commission has published additional guidance documents and a stronger international cooperation framework to support global stakeholders, Member States a...
BRC Issue Retailer Statement in relation to SMETA 7 requirements
Following the implementation of SMETA version 7 in September 2024, the BRC have issued a response from the major retailers in relation to the Responsible Recrui...
Migration Advisory Committee Seasonal Worker Visa Review
The Migration Advisory Committee conducted an in depth research project into the Seasonal Worker Visa and the results have now been published. The main recommen...
DEFRA Contractual Fairness Consultation Response
Between December 2023 and February 2024, Defra, in collaboration with the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, conducted a ...
Consumer Goods Forum Launch SSCI Environmental Benchmark
The Consumer Goods Forum, responsible for GFSI, have launched the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative environmental benchmark which seeks to standardise the cri...
Defra Farm Business Survey results 2022
An overview of the horticultural industry in the United Kingdom (UK) using external data, including government published statistics and information from the pre...
Government Unveils Major Packaging of Farming and Food Sector Support
FPC's CEO Nigel Jenney attended the Farm to Fork summit at 10 Downing Street, where the Prime Minister laid out a clear ambition to grow our fruit and vegetable...