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 […]
FUW tells farmers to take action on mis-sold loans
Welsh farmers were urged today to check if they have been mis-sold a fixed rate loan account during the period 2006 to 2011. “There are farmers who are discovering to their detriment that loans taken out during this period are not what they were meant to be,” said Farmers’ Union of Wales business development director […]
F.D.Bird family farmers plough on to expansion
The group is made up of the original farming partnership and storage business, F D Bird & Sons; the quarry and aggregates operation, Yarrows Aggregates, and Heron Lakes Luxury Lodge Park. All four elements of the business are based in Beverley, East Yorkshire. The new finance agreement will free up working capital for the entire […]
Crown Estate announces record profits
The Crown Estate earned a net profit (income surplus) of £240.2 million in the year ending 31 March 2012, up 4% on the previous year. This marks another record return for the business, which pays its profit to the Treasury for the benefit of the nation’s finances. For the first time The Crown Estate’s total […]
Westcountry’s farmers affected by interest rate swap sales
Stephens Scown LLP, which has offices in Exeter, Truro and St Austell, says it is already acting for one farming partnership in Cornwall to secure substantial damages from the mis-selling of the complex financial derivative. Many small businesses have entered into interest rate swap agreements in recent years when looking to secure a conventional […]
