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Agricultural Land
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Inland Revenue Help Sheet IR251, Published for year ending April 2002. This leaflet gives you information to help you fill in the Land and Property Pages in your Tax Return. This Help Sheet covers the additional loss relief, known as 'agricultural relief', available to you where agricultural land is included in your rental business.
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Agricultural Wages in Scotland - A Guide for Workers and Employers
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The first edition of this Guide was produced in 1996 to help employers and workers understand the new rules resulting from the simplification of the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Order
(No 44) 1996. This edition of the Guide incorporates the new rates of pay, annual leave, absence due to ill health, benefits, and other changes introduced with effect from Monday 1 January 2007. 11th Edition. SEERAD, October 2006.
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Agricultural Wages Order
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This leaflet sets out the principal provisions in the Agricultural Wages Order. In general terms, the Agricultural Wages Order applies to all those employed in dairy farming, rearing animals, including bee-keeping, growing consumable produce, which includes non-edible crops such as bulbs, plants and flowers, forestry, market gardens and maintaining meadow or pasture land and reed beds. This leaflet is only a summary of the main provisions of the AWO 2011. It is not an authoritative statement of the law and does not have the force of law. Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales, 2011.
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Agricultural waste - Opportunities for farmers and growers: Farm Collection and Recycling Schemes (GEHO0406BLNF-E-E)
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This pack will tell you more about the waste management laws that apply to setting up a farm collection and recovery scheme. The Environment Agency encourages the recovery of agricultural waste. Weve written this guidance to help you set up and operate your scheme within the law. Environment Agency, GEHO0406BLNF-E-E, 2006.
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Agri-Environment and other Grant Schemes
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Provides an index to all the main grant schemes available. Does not contain advice regarding the new grants systems implemented in 2007.
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Assessment of Non-Food Crop Opportunities in the South East of England
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Within the food sector the SE is committed to supporting local produce, through working with farmer groups, local food groups & other agencies to promote development & encourage new outlets through farmers markets & village shops. This report considers why and how a similar commitment should be made in the non-food sector. National Non-Food Crops Centre, 2006
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Barriers to farm diversification
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The aim of this Working Group report has been to identify those factors which might inhibit individuals from taking the decision to diversify and/or which threaten the success of the diversification once undertaken; and to make recommendations for how such barriers might be removed or their impact mitigated. The recommendations relate to two key areas: lack of business skills and the land use planning system. Report of the Joint Industry-Government Working Group, Defra, May 2007.
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Bio-Energy - A Growing Energy Supply
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This DEFRA document gives an overview of grants for bio-energy production. These include the Bio-energy Captial Grants Scheme, Community & Household Capital Grants Scheme, Bioenergy Infrastructure Scheme, Energy Crops Scheme and The Woodland Grants Scheme. Published by DEFRA 2002.
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Bio-energy Infrastructure Scheme 2005 (PB10175)
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The Scheme provides grants to help the development of the supply chain required to harvest, store, process and supply biomass to heat, combined heat and power, and electricity end-users. Summarises the scheme, eligibility, funding, applications, agreements, project monitoring, non-compliance, disclosure of information, publicity, administration complaints, business plans, other grants schemes, and contacts. Defra, PB10175, 2005.
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Broadband in Rural Areas
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This report is the result of a review of 13 early community broadband projects in England. The purpose of the review was to identify best practice activities by communities, local authorities and individual businesses to overcome the lack of broadband services in villages, small towns and rural business parks. Countryside Agency, CA 148, Sept 2005.
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Carbon Calculators Directory
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The ADLib document provides a brief overview of some of the main carbon calculators that are currently available. ADLib, Last updated: 19 July 2013.
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Carbon Footprint: Guide to PAS 2050. How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services
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'Carbon footprint' is a term used to describe the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a particular activity or entity, and thus a way for organisations and individuals to assess their contribution to climate change. Understanding these emissions, and where they come from, is necessary in order to reduce them. In the past, companies wanting to measure their carbon footprints have focused on their own emissions, but now they are increasingly
concerned with emissions across their entire supply chain. This guide explains how to assess GHG emissions of an individual product, either a good or a service, across its entire life cycle - from raw materials through all stages of production (or service provision), distribution, use and disposal/recycling - in accordance with the method specified in the BSI Publicly Available Specification 2050:2008, or 'PAS 2050'. Defra, Carbon Trust & BSI, ISBN 978-0-580-64636-2, 2008.
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Carbon Footprints in the Supply Chain: Next Steps for Business
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Energy efficiency has succeeded, and will continue to succeed, in delivering valuable carbon and cost savings for business. This leaflet presents a new practical approach to reduce the carbon emissions in the products we all consume, by understanding and optimising emissions across full product supply chains. The Carbon Trust, 2006.
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Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF): Capital Grant Scheme Farmer Handbook (CSF 3, NE319)
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This publication has been updated in Jan 2013 and includes the latest scheme rules and detailed specifications for capital items. Good water quality is important because it provides clean drinking water, safe bathing waters, productive fisheries and a healthy environment. It is vital for wildlife and biodiversity and encourages countryside recreation and tourism so benefitting rural businesses. In future years water quality standards will become increasingly stringent. The EC Water Framework Directive requires Member States to prepare river basin management plans and manage water resources in a sustainable manner. A key objective is that rivers should achieve good ecological status in terms of water quality and this will require action in both urban and rural areas with implications for farming. Natural England, CSF 3, NE319, January 2013.
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Coastal Access: Natural England's Approved Scheme 2013 (NE446)
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This is Version 2 of the Coastal Access Scheme ("the Scheme"), which is the methodology for implementation of the England Coast Path and associated coastal margin of coastal land. It replaces the previous version of the Scheme (NE269) for the purposes of all coastal access reports published by Natural England after the date of its approval. Part 9 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 ("the 2009 Act")1 aims to improve public access to, and enjoyment of, the English coastline by creating clear and consistent public rights along the English coast for open-air recreation on foot. It allows existing coastal access to be secured and improved and new access to be created in coastal places where it did not already exist. Natural England, NE446, 18 July 2013.
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