Solley’s Real Dairy Ice Cream reaches new heights
Award-winning ice cream producers Solley’s Farms is now supplying Qantas flights out of the UK with flavours Ginger and Raspberry, made at the company’s Ripple, near Deal, plant. Stephen Solley, managing director of Solley’s Farms, said: “It’s wonderful to think our ice cream is now being enjoyed across the world; and we’re thrilled to be […]
Largest industrialized fish farming facility in Europe inaugurated in Poland
Opened two months ago, the facility was designed and built by Aqua Moaf Aquaculture Technologies in cooperation with local Polish businessmen and is spread out over an area of 8000 square metres. The cost of its construction, some €12M, is expected to be recouped within 5 years of operation. David Hazeret, CEO and partner said, […]
Ian Macalpine elected new RABDF chairman
Ian Macalpine is the newly elected chairman of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers. He succeeds David Cotton who has completed a three year term of office. Ian has been dairy farming for over 30 years, previously with Holstein Friesians, and now in partnership with his wife, Sally managing a 250 cow pedigree Jersey […]
Lawyer warns wind & hydro delvelopers on legal pitfalls
A rural lawyer has urged the UK’s renewable developers to ‘tick every box’ when it comes to the legal documents surrounding their schemes and partnerships with landowners. The timely warning comes from renewable legal specialist Elayna Smith as figures reveal the number of wind farms and hydro schemes across the UK are at their highest […]
Record farmland prices – good or bad for farmers?
Latest figures from a survey conducted by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors show the average price of an acre of farmland in the West Midlands reached £7,625 in the second half of 2012 – a record high. And the survey concludes values are expected to continue to rise, especially for larger blocks of commercial […]
Groundbreaking SPS payment performance continues
The Rural Payments Agency has achieved its end of March SPS payment target more than five weeks ahead of schedule, paying 98.4 percent of SPS customers and 97.2 percent of the estimated fund value by 19 February 2013. This is the best ever performance on the part of the Agency which has now paid £1.6 […]
Openfield Group reports another good year
Openfield Group Ltd, the farmer-owned grain marketing and farm inputs business, has reported operating profits £2.9 million for the financial year to 30th June 2012. The results build on the excellent year recorded in 2011 and mark another solid year for the business which is investing heavily in new information technology systems and expansion of […]
NFU in final push ahead of historic CAP vote
NFU Deputy President Meurig Raymond will be in Strasbourg next week, where the European Parliament’s 754 MEPs will vote on a range of measures that will shape the Parliament’s position as part of final stages of CAP reform negotiations. Mr Raymond, who will meet the MEPs at the forefront of the reform, said: “We are […]
New man in Scotland for Landini and McCormick tractors
A Scottish farmer’s son whose career has given him years’ of experience in retail farm machinery sales is now finding out what life on the other side of the fence is like as the new area sales manager in Scotland for tractor distributor AgriArgo UK. Robert ‘Bob’ Bain joined the Landini and McCormick tractor distributor […]
