IFA president Tim Cullinan. /Philip Doyle
It is vital that the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue is prepared to hold out for a better CAP deal, IFA president Tim Cullinan has said.
“There’s another month left in the Portuguese presidency and no deal is better than a bad deal.”
The comments follow a meeting betwee Cullinan and the president of the EU Agriculture Council Maria do Céu Antunes on Wednesday morning in Brussels ahead of the Council of Ministers meeting.
Eco schemes
Cullinan who was acting in his capacity of first vice-president of COPA, insisted that eco-schemes have the potential to severely affect farm incomes.
The farmhouse A productive Cornish farm with 110 acres and the added bonus of income from both holiday cottages and renewable energy has come to the market. Bogee Farm sits between Camel Valley and the north Cornish coast, in St Ervan, four miles from Padstow. Bogee Farm It has a Grade II listed farmhouse with four bedrooms, a three bedroom cottage and three further holiday letting cottages. The Mill and the Manor There is a comprehensive range of adaptable farm buildings, including a cattle shed, machinery shed, grain store and straw shed. The arable and pasture land extends to around 110 acres and lies within a ring fence divided only by a parish road.
Bad weather sees East Midlands farm incomes fall by 18%
11 May 2021 |
An annual survey of farms in the East Midlands has found farm incomes have fallen by 18% in the last year
A survey of farms in the East Midlands region has found that net income from the latest harvest season fell by nearly a quarter.
The survey, which covers a total of 20,000 acres of farmland in the region, was carried out by accountancy firm Duncan & Toplis.
It found the average net farm income for the 2020 harvest fell to £109 per hectare, down from £133 the year before.
However, this 18 percent fall was better than the 30 percent predicted a year ago.
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