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  • A possible hairy situation for the NFU

    Dear oh dear. I can’t image the NFU team are a bunch of happy bunnies at the moment. Having given DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman a telling off this week for not taking farming seriously enough, this morning it’s emerged government plans for a badger cull to tackle bovine TB are being delayed. The setback...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 18 2011

  • The DEFRA love-in turns sour

    After the glamour of the Soil Association conference in Manchester last week, this week I’m at the NEC in Birmingham for the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting. With no general election on the immediate horizon, union president Peter Kendall in the hot seat for another year and a DEFRA...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 15 2011

  • Re: NFU officeholders

    If the NFU are so bad and are not supporting the British farmers then what are we as the British farmers doing about it. As with any company/ business if the people at the top are not doing their jobs then they have to be moved out and people who can do the job should be moved in. If the NFU are, as...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by ed the digger on Wed, Jul 22 2009

  • 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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