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Read CLA Cymru's consultation response
Published on 22 Apr 2021
- Authors
- Jonathan Thompson
- Title
- Welsh Government consultation - heritage partnership agreements
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CLA Cymru Senior Policy Adviser Fraser McAuley, outlines the payment rates for 2023 and 2024 and provides an overview of the team’s continuing work on the Agriculture (Wales) Bill and new Sustainable Farming Scheme
Published on 16 Dec 2022
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- Fraser McAuley
- Regions
- Wales
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- CLA Cymru Senior Policy Adviser Fraser McAuley, outlines the payment rates for 2023 and 2024 and provides an overview of the team’s continuing work on the Agriculture (Wales) Bill and new Sustainable Farming Scheme
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- Welsh Government announces BPS payment rates
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The Welsh Government has announced measures to assist farmers in complying with the Agricultural Pollution Regulations: a critical deadline delay, further financial assistance and commitment to use new technology. We summarise and comment.
Published on 12 Oct 2022
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- Wales
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- The Welsh Government has announced a package of measures supporting farmers' compliance with the regulations. We summarise and comment.
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- Welsh Government Written Statement: Cooperation Agreement: Agricultural Pollution
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Victoria Bond, Director of CLA Cymru, recently hosted an on-farm meeting for Welsh Government SFS lead, showcasing her farm's practices and the challenges faced by local farmers.
Published on 20 Feb 2024
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- Wales
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- cymru, wales, senedd, politics, sfs
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- Victoria Bond, Director of CLA Cymru, recently hosted an on-farm meeting for Welsh Government SFS lead, showcasing her farm's practices and the challenges faced by local farmers.
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- Welsh Government Visit to Directors Farm
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We've updated our summary of rural payments and grants obtainable to farmers and land managers in Wales.
Published on 21 Jun 2023
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- Wales
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- Our update of rural payments available to farmers and land managers.
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- Welsh Government Rural Payments Update
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As new regulations come into force, CLA Cymru Policy & Engagement Adviser has produced this guide to the key documents, the optional workbook and the schedule of changes.
Published on 30 Jan 2024
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- Wales
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- As new regulations come into force, CLA Cymru Policy & Engagement Adviser has produced this guide to the key documents, the optional workbook and the schedule of changes.
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- Welsh Government Agricultural Pollution Regulations: A quick guide and links to key sources
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It has been reported that Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has appointed a new team to inspect around 800 farms in 2024, to help reduce the impact of agricultural pollution. CLA Cymru responds.
Published on 23 Jan 2024
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- Wales
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- It has been reported that Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has appointed a new team to inspect around 800 farms in 2024, to help reduce the impact of agricultural pollution. CLA Cymru responds.
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- Welsh Farmers need support to manage natural challenges and invest in nutrient control
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Senior Policy Adviser Fraser McAuley provides an overview of the new Optional and Collaborative layers of the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS).
Published on 21 Apr 2026
- Authors
- Sarah Wells-Gaston
- Regions
- Wales
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- Overview of Optional and Collaborative Layers of the Sustainable Farming Scheme.
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- Welsh Farmers gain new tools to build resilient, sustainable farms
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As people in Wales head to the polls on Thursday 6 May it is worth reflecting on what comes next for rural Wales. In this podcast we explore what the Senedd needs to do over the next five years to grow the Welsh rural economy.
Published on 11 May 2021
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- In this podcast, CLA Cymru’s Chair Rory McLaggan, who runs the Merthyr Mawr Estate, shares with us his thoughts on what would make operating his business easier, the successes of the Welsh Government and the role farmers and landowners have in mitigating climate change.
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- Welsh Election Special: What is next for rural wales?
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A Q&A resource for land managers as part of the projects open consultation for reintroduction of beavers to the Dyfi catchment.
Published on 31 Jan 2022
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- Wales
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- This Questions & Answers resource has been produced for the benefit of land managers as part of the project stakeholder consultation process.
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- Welsh Beaver Project: Consultation Q&A for land managers
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A Senedd committee and a Welsh Government task force with the CLA's input are both looking at better solutions to reduce agricultural pollution than the new regulations introduced this spring
Published on 27 Jul 2021
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- Wales
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- CLA Cymru Policy Advisor, Fraser McAuley assures us that opportunity still exists to find better solutions to well-meaning regulations to protect the environment, which have a disproportionate negative impact on Welsh farms
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- Welsh Ag Pollution Regs: no time wasted!
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National data highlights the wellbeing gaps, access challenges and occupational risks that continue to affect rural communities across the UK
Published on 11 Feb 2026
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- Samantha Horton,Antonia Barraclough
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- National data highlights the wellbeing gaps, access challenges and occupational risks that continue to affect rural communities across the UK
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- Wellbeing in the countryside: what the numbers say about rural mental health