Updates from EU Member States, including reports from ARC Web Correspondents
Organic and Other Farming in Ireland
Has the Irish state effectively abandoned organic farming? […]
Updates from EU Member States, including reports from ARC Web Correspondents
Has the Irish state effectively abandoned organic farming? […]
Westminster ignores convergence uplift for Scotland. […]
This week, German agricultural ministers agreed on the distribution of EU agricultural funds – read on for details of how CAP will be implemented […]
The measures already decided for CAP implementation in Spain […]
Largest takeover of a US firm in history consolidates global pork: so what are the details? […]
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. […]
Did you know it is possible to be a small scale gardener before breakfast and a destroyer of small scale production in work? Meet Traian Basescu. […]
How have the European Union’s newest members protected its land? Have land moratoriums worked? […]
Nationalist party Ataka succeeds in extending moratorium on selling land to foreign citizens and legal entities until 2020 […]
The UK supermarket this week revealed wastage rates for some of its products […]
Exploring the gap between the rhetoric and the reality in Hungary on CAP refrom […]
UK National Farmers’ Union warned of ‘long term damage’ to its membership when the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Scheme is shut down […]
Saving the Romanian countryside or meddling in another country’s affairs? Prince Charles generates highland subprogramme for Romania […]
Are the tobacco lobby still up to their mad old tricks? […]
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