This week we’re running a poll on FWI asking “Should the Milk Marketing Board be reintroduced?” This is not because we have even the slightest misapprehension….
Archive | October, 2009
First Milk defies the market – and cuts price
Talk about bad timing! Today’s announcement by First Milk that it is cutting its milk price by 0.65p/litre will guarantee a hostile reception for new chairman Bill Mustoe when he addresses the co-op’s AGM for the first time on Thursday.
DFOB bosses reveal where it went wrong
I’ve just had the dubious pleasure of watching the former chairman and chief milk manager of defunct co-op Dairy Farmers of Britain giving evidence to a high ranking cross-party committee.
NFU and British Sugar need new “love-in”
Richard and Judy, Posh and Becks, Morecombe and Wise – when it comes to natural couplings, it has to be said that the NFU and British Sugar make unlikely bed-fellows.
Spare a thought for New Zealand lamb
UK farmers know only too well how much impact the exchange rate can have on profits, both good and bad
French pea and bean subsidy “not all bad”
Clearly there are two sides to every story…and having just been taken out for a very nice lunch by the French agriculture attaché, I’m happy to say that that includes the story about French protein crop subsidies too.
Zero tolerance on GMs benefits linseed – for now
Much has been written and said in recent weeks about the downside of the EU’s policy of “zero tolerance” when it comes to importing animal feed that contains traces of non-EU approved GM varieties.
More farmers opt for euros – it’s official!
Faster than a speeding bullet, DEFRA has put out a press release revealing the exchange rate at which this year’s single farm payments will be converted from euros to sterling.
The consumer is right….and don’t forget it
Another conference, another lesson in A level economics….Last week it was the fundamentals of supply and demand
French farm policy turns ugly
When EU agriculture ministers signed off last year’s CAP health check, we described the package as “the good, the bad and the ugly”.