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Is the UK cutting corners on food safety?
Cutbacks are having an impact on food safety testing. Peter Crosskey investigates. […]
Cutbacks are having an impact on food safety testing. Peter Crosskey investigates. […]
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 […]
A lack of joined up thinking between UK government Departments has halted a large industrial pig unit. […]
Combined with a new EU regulation, growing Polish export of poultry is causing fear in the UK. […]
With UK nations having more autonomy than ever before, what is in the DEFRA consultation for England? […]
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. […]
UK National Farmers’ Union warned of ‘long term damage’ to its membership when the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Scheme is shut down […]
Just how do badgers moved goalposts? […]
UK government’s rural broadband investment programme slammed by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) […]
UK government ignoring the growing volume of evidence against the continued use of neonicotinoids which harm pollinators […]
Patterson pushes Tory ‘environmental’ agenda, including support for fracking […]
UK committed to applying an “active farmer” test to ensure SPS payments in future […]
UK government using summer break to collect evidence for CAP implementation […]
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