- Food and agriculture
- Current issues
- Policy
- Food policy
- Agricultural policy
- Support for agriculture
- EU direct payments
- National agricultural aid
- Payments under the Rural Development Programme
- Market organisations
- EU co-financed information and promotional activities
- Promoting horse management
- Reindeer husbandry, natural means of livelihood and the Skolt Sámi
- Advisory services for farms
- Discretionary government transfers for advisory services concerning agriculture and other rural industries and for 4H activities
- Importance of agricultural support
- Market arrangements
- Decision-making in the EU
- Preparation of EU affairs in Finland
- Support and aid
- Food
- Responsibly from farm to fork
- Information and statistics
- Animals and plants
- Forests
- Rural areas
- Fisheries
- Wildlife and game
- Water
- Land surveying and spatial information
- Nature and climate
- Bioeconomy and circular economy
- Research and development
- EU and international affairs
Advisory services for farms
As the causal relationships related to environmental management are complex and farms very different, it is important to offer advice to farmers committing themselves to environmental measures.
Advisory services are available, for example, on the following matters:
– environmental matters (opportunity to have an environmental plan drawn up, addressing a wide range of farm-related environmental issues)
– health and welfare of production animals (opportunity to have a health care plan drawn up for production animals) and
– more efficient energy use and renewable energy (opportunity to have an energy plan drawn up to enhance the farm’s energy efficiency).
Enhancing the effectiveness of agri-environmental measures and improving their targeting through advisory services requires that the observations made when providing advice can be taken into account by adjusting the commitment an applicant has already made. Advisory services may also help to pinpoint potential development needs concerning animal welfare.
Putting research-based knowledge and innovations into practice requires close collaboration between farmers, researchers, advisers and companies.