IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF
• OVER 80% of visitors to the Royal Agricultural Society of Englands Town and Country Festival this year thought farmers do a good job of looking after the countryside, according to a survey. Four out of five people who responded to the poll also said they thought British food was best.
• FOOT-AND-MOUTH disease has increased the membership of the Dumfries and Galloway region of NFU Scotland by more than 60 members. Regional board chairman Wuffy McIntyre said the surge in membership was a fitting tribute to the efforts of all union representatives, staff and members. "It is the profile and workload taken on by many in the region that has impressed so many of our fellow farmers."
• A SUFFOLK farm is being sold to a charitable trust which intends to turn the 80ha (200 acres) into a conservation and angling park. David and Hazel Prutton, of Emmerdale Farm, Darsham, are retiring and selling the holding, including the farmhouse and buildings, to the trustees of a project called Sleepy Hollow. *