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‘We are fed up’ weekend in pictures
UK correspondent Peter Crosskey shares his photos from the weekend of one of Germany’s biggest demonstration in years […]
Peter Crosskey is based in the UK.
UK correspondent Peter Crosskey shares his photos from the weekend of one of Germany’s biggest demonstration in years […]
Everyone’s favourite company have a hard time pushing GM through. So what now?. […]
What do UK citizens really want from CAP reform and DEFRA? […]
When it comes to bees and neonicotinoid pesticides, the UK’s National Farmer’s Union seems perfectly willing to keep the killer sprays pumping […]
How do we really account for what are euphemistically called externalities in the food system? Read on… […]
Bee-killing neonicotinoid seed dressings on winter-sown cereals deliver just 2% of their active ingredients to plant tissue. What happens to the other 98%? […]
Objectivity under scrutiny after questionable appointment to Scientific Journal. […]
A lack of joined up thinking between UK government Departments has halted a large industrial pig unit. […]
Food campaigners accuse five international banks of raking off more than two billion pounds […]
With UK nations having more autonomy than ever before, what is in the DEFRA consultation for England? […]
Westminster ignores convergence uplift for Scotland. […]
Is the UK trying to restrain the Financial Conduct Authority and keep food speculation alike and kicking? […]
The UK all-farm average business income is GBP 47000 for the year 2012-13, according to official figures released by DEFRA. However the ministry figure includes an average of GBP 25000 for Single Payment Scheme (SPS) money, which is not directly generated on any farm. So an adjusted headline figure for earnings from farming would be GBP 22000 between those working the farm: less than the average weekly earnings for an employee in a food factory (source: National Office for Statistics). DEFRA attributes the slide to a poor growing season and difficult conditions for cropping and livestock sectors alike. Higher feed costs were blamed for a 50% fall in lowland grazing incomes (average GBP 16500), while their upland counterparts in Less Favoured Areas (LFAs) suffered a 35% drop in earnings (average GBP 19500). DEFRA concedes that both categories of farming activity lost money saying they: “…failed to make a positive return from agriculture…” Yet the ministry insists on blaming the lower exchange rate for reduced CAP receipts, as if these were a direct product of farming. […]
The UK supermarket this week revealed wastage rates for some of its products […]
UK National Farmers’ Union warned of ‘long term damage’ to its membership when the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Scheme is shut down […]
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