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Single Payment Scheme - ALLOCATION OF NEW ENTITLEMENTS
01/01/2009 Farmers who have land in the following crops will be eligible to claim SPS from 2009 onwards and will be able to apply for additional entitlements for the 2010 year.
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MONEY FOR AGRI ENVIRONMENT AGREEMENTS (August 2008)
01/08/2008 Natural England currently have a significant amount of cash to spend on new Higher Level Stewardship agreements and on adding new capital works such as fencing to existing Countryside Stewardship and Environmentally Sensitive Area agreements.
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Bluetongue (updated 9th May 2008)
09/05/2008 The Bluetongue Vaccine is now available within the control zone and farmers and vets alike have been administering doses in an effort to vaccinate as many susceptible animals as quickly as possible.
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Foot and Mouth Disease
31/12/2007 All restrictions relating to Foot and Mouth susceptible animals including export to the EU were lifted on the 31st December 2007.
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Removal of Set-aside for 2008
26/09/2007 Following the European Commission proposal in July to set the obligatory set-aside rate at 0% for the 2008 scheme year, Defra have confirmed (26th September) that this will be the case.
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Fruit, Vegetable and Potato Entitlements (FVPs)
29/08/2007 Jeff Rooker, Minister for Sustainable Food and Animal Health announced on the 29th August 2007 that with effect from the 2008 SPS scheme year the FVP entitlement system will be abolished.
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