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Spring lamb prices 'not good enough', says UFU
Prices for new season lamb fail to reflect the impact of the stronger euro, which should be delivering better returns for producers, according to…
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UK racks up £650m of penalties through poor CAP implementation
The UK has incurred at least £650 million of penalties through poor implementation of European Union funds for farmers and only seems to have woken…
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Farmers see lowest average profit since 2003
It’s time for farmers to ride out the financial climate and look at costs and efficiencies, say leading chartered accountants Duncan & Toplis. Duncan…
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Rural organisations write to DEFRA urging a more 'public and proactive' action on BPS
Rural organisations have today written to the Defra Secretary of State Liz Truss to encourage her to urgently take a public and proactive role in…
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EU Commissioner visits China and Japan to strike agricultural-food trade
The EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan and more than 60 agri-food executives are visiting China and Japan in the coming days representing key…
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'Maximise the marketplace to add value to sheep meat and other products', says NSA
Volatility of farm gate prices is the new reality for UK sheep farmers – and is prompting some producers to be more innovative in attempts to add…
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Volatility means new strategies needed to manage farm cashflow
Increasingly volatile markets may mean farming businesses that are highly seasonal or have long profit cycles will need to think differently about…
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EU to contribute €414 million to global agricultural issues
The European Commission has prepared an additional EU contribution of €414 million to address both the immediate and longer term needs of people…
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Highest spends don't necessarily mean highest yields
Challenging disease scenarios’ with rising input costs are a grower’s biggest challenge to margins this year – but do they need to be? This is the…
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Rural Payments Wales ahead of England on BPS - just 3.8% of farmers left to pay
Tenant Farmers' Association Cymru has welcomed the latest 2015 Basic Payment Scheme payment statistics issued to industry stakeholders by Rural…
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