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Motivation and the future generations.

One of the many things I always here about is motivation! I see on the forum people on about the next generation and family farms. But at the end of the day, where are you in agriculture without a family farm? POSSIBLY a contractor? May be a smallholder? Working for DEFRA or the NFU or a manager of a...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Wed, Feb 20 2008
Should farmers be faced with a £40m animal disease bill?

DEFRA secretary of state Hilary Benn announced yesterday (Thursday 25 October) English livestock farmers will face a future bill of £40m a year as their contribution to the cost of animal disease outbreaks ( see FWi's article ). The announcement has been met with strong opposition from both government...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by emily on Fri, Oct 26 2007
DEFRA's sugar outgoers scheme is just "jobs for the boys"

Government ministers are forever going on about their desire to cut red tape. The problem they face, however, is that it is every civil servant's instinct to do just the opposite. When it comes to red tape, they just can't get enough of it! There can be no better example than the impending "grower...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by phil clarke on Thu, Oct 18 2007

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