The latest TIFF (Total Income From Farming) figures from DEFRA published this week come as quite a surprise.
Archive | January, 2010
NFU and CLA at loggerheads over CAP
To find the NFU and the CLA at loggerheads over the future shape of the CAP comes as little surprise, given the organisations’ track record in this area.
Royal plan to reverse wool’s fortunes
Sheep values are in the ascendancy with producers enjoying a larger slice of the pie, as the gap between farmgate prices and retail prices narrows.
Outlook for farming still quite positive
Farmers Weekly’s publisher Trevor Parker approached me at the start of the week and asked me to come up with a current “state of the industry” assessment for a presentation he is giving.
GM debate looms large at City Food Lecture
Talk about mixing with the great and the good – the delegates list at this week’s City Food Lecture really did read like a Who’s Who of the food and farming industry.
Grain market feels the pain as sterling strengthens
There can be little doubt that the bears are winning the day in the grain markets this month. Prices have been under pressure since the turn of the year,
Online shopping an opportunity for farmers
The joy of internet shopping is a relatively recent addition to my life. I think it coincided with getting married a little over a year ago. Since then I’ve noticed a
Would-be Commissioner Ciolos plays a blinder…
If agriculture commissioner-designate Dacian Ciolos was a cricketer, then you’d look no further for someone to open the batting.
Counting the cost of the “big freeze”
As an enthusiastic skier, the sight of snow seldom fails to excite me. But sitting in another two-hour traffic jam on the way to work this morning, even I was starting to feel I’d seen enough.
Irish view of CAP reform is ‘pie in the sky’
My brother-in-law, who sends me humorous e-mails on an almost daily basis, (though most of them are unprintable), has forwaded me the following anecdote: