Farming and countryside planning and strategy

Guidance and services

• Agriculture: winter update 2018
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Agriculture: winter update 2017
  Includes important dates, changes to rules and topical advice.
• Amaeth Cymru: the future of agriculture in Wales
  Our vision for agriculture, the current status, and what we will do to achieve that vision.
• Support for rural development
  We promote the exchange of expertise in rural development.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Brexit and our land consultation: myth-busting facts
  Policy and strategy
  A list of common misunderstandings about the consultation and the proposals we have made.
• Roundtable Wales (group advising on rural affairs and Brexit)
  Policy and strategy
  Stakeholders from across the rural sector looking at the effects of the EU exit.
• Open letter regarding support for Welsh farming after Brexit
  Policy and strategy
  Cabinet secretary Lesley Griffiths writes about the Brexit and Our Land consultation.
• Report into agri-insurance for disasters and severe weather
  Report
  Recommends options for subsidised severe weather insurance for farmers.
• Review of resilience of farming: final report
  Report
  Independent recommendations to improve the performance and productivity of farming.
• Review of resilience of farming: ministerial response
  Public response
  What we plan to do in response to recommendations to improve the performance and productivity of farming.
• Review of resilience of farming: interim report
  Report
  Initial feedback into improving the performance and productivity of farming.
• Review of the dairy sector in Wales
  Report
  Independent recommendations to support the dairy industry.
• Horticulture industry: strategic action plan
  Policy and strategy
  Our vision for a sustainable horticulture industry that benefits the people and environment.
• Review of agricultural education: report
  Report
  An independent review of agricultural further education and how it supports farming.
• Options for a new integrated natural resource monitoring framework for Wales
  Report
  Recommendations to improve the use and sharing of natural resource evidence and data.
• Options to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activity
  Report
  Research into how agriculture can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Climate change: land use report
  Report
  Scientific evidence and analysis of how agriculture and rural land use can reduce climate change and adapt to it.
• Climate change: land use review
  Report
  A review of how agriculture and rural land use can reduce climate change and adapt to it.