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News The biggest IT project affected is the 'Whole Farm Approach' - a web-based system for the country's 120,000 farms, and farmers who sign up will be able to start simplifying the way they do business with government. [07 Feb 2008]
Sheep ID tags to combat disease outbreaks
News Electronic tagging of sheep will be mandatory for UK farmers from 31 December 2009 as part of a European Union ruling to help combat disease outbreaks such as foot and mouth. It could also mean greater movement... [19 Dec 2007]
£1.5bn farm subsidy chaos: "Inept" planning blamed
News Poor planning and a lack of testing of IT systems have been blamed for "inept" delays in the payment of £1.5bn of vital EU subsidies to thousands of UK farmers. The UK government developed a complex system for... [06 Sep 2007]
Farmers' IT system hurt by lack of testing
News Inadequate deadlines and too little testing of IT systems contributed to the problems in paying subsidies to farmers earlier this year. According to the National Audit Office (NAO) report into the delays to the EU's... [18 Oct 2006]
Farmers to finally get £1.5bn subsidy cash after IT woes
News Vital subsidy payments are finally starting to reach UK farmers following computer and administrative problems with the new Single Payment Scheme (SPS). By the end of April, less than half of the £1.5bn of subsidies owed... [12 May 2006]
A decade of Webby Awards
News Among those sites lauded for being "weird," in a good way, are the Boneless Pig Farmers Association Of America, Car Stuck Girls and urban legend tracker Snopes.com. Nominees for the 10th annual Webby Awards were... [12 Apr 2006]
MPs blame IT for late payments to farmers
News MPs are blaming an overloaded computer system for the late payment of government subsidies to farmers. The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is currently facing "substantial" problems in making payments to... [29 Mar 2006]
Warnings "ignored" as gov't IT project cost doubles
News The House of Commons Committee on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was "deeply unimpressed" by the failure of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) to implement a new system for making payments to farmers. [24 Jan 2006]
Online services to cut farmer red tape
News The government is to encourage farmers to use online services in a bid to cut red tape and improve its regulation of the agricultural industry. Officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),... [29 Nov 2005]
National IT system 'will save farmers £28m per year'
News The government claim a new web-based IT system to help cut the time farmers spend filling in forms and dealing with red tape could save the farming industry up to £28m per year. The Whole Farm Approach (WFA) system is a... [14 Sep 2005]
London to be exempt from mobile driving ban?
News These people aren't farmers or parents on the school run - these people are brokering the deals which will put the Great back into Great Britain. MPs are discussing a revision to the recent ban on driving while holding a... [01 Apr 2004]
£50m Welsh farm payments delayed by IT
News Subsidies vital to Welsh farmers worth £50m were delayed in the last year because of "wide-ranging" problems with a new Welsh Assembly IT system, according to a report by the National Audit Office for Wales. [21 Nov 2003]
Terrorist threat not enough to get US government sharing information
News He ran into similar problems when implementing an IT system that would allow his department division to track loans and grants given to farmers. US government departments are stalling the roll-out of data-sharing systems... [22 May 2002]
Farmers plough on with GPS breakthrough
News Farmers in the US are set to usher in a second tech-fuelled agricultural revolution with the latest breakthrough in global positioning system (GPS) technology. But before farmers start putting in their... [22 May 2002]
Protect yourself from identity theft
News Minneapolis-based Farmers Home Group is selling its identity theft protection plan for people who are worried about their credit card numbers or other private data being stolen. A US insurance company is offering... [16 Apr 2002]
