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1 in 4 farming families are living below the poverty line.

Posted 30 November 2010

A report in the Farmers Guardian states that a quarter of farming households live below the official poverty line with an income of less than £20,000.  The report, by the Commission for Rural

SPS payments to start this week!

Posted 29 November 2010

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will begin issuing Single Payments next week, as it strives to improve on its SPS delivery performances of previous years.  Thousands of farmers across the UK w

Christmas tree shortage in Wales!

Posted 29 November 2010

Welsh families have been warned of a Christmas tree shortage after crops suffered damage in last winter's big freeze.  European growers were also shunning the UK market because the poor exchan

Yorkshire farmers on alert against sheep rustlers.

Posted 29 November 2010

The Yorkshire Post has reported that gangs of sheep rustlers have been targeting farms across Yorkshire as a dramatic rise in the price of lamb has sparked a resurgence of the crime.  And with

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