More foreign workers will be available to pick daffodils and riddle potatoes in the fields of the South West next year, as a result of an announcement by Home Office Minister Phil Woolas of an increase in the size of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme quota. Farming organisations and their industry partners joined forces to persuade Ministers there was a compelling case for the need to increase the SAWS quota to reflect the difficulties experienced in sourcing sufficient seasonal labour to harvest crops.
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LOBBYING by the NFU has seen Home Office minister Phil Woolas announce an increase in the size of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme quota. NFU and industry partners joined forces to persuade ministers there was a compelling case to increase the Saws quota to reflect the difficulties experienced by the horticulture industry in finding sufficient seasonal labour to pick fruit and harvest crops.
Latest figures on milk production in Europe will not please West Country dairy far mers. While the UK struggles to maintain its level of milk quota allocation, the Italian and German agricultural ministries have suggested "herd retirement schemes" as part of a drive to reduce milk output in their respective countries.
FARMERS who boosted their 2005 single farm payment by investing in milk quota at the right time will see a 50 per cent increase in that part of the payment this year. That can be seen as far-sighted financial astuteness by the few who read all the small print of common agricultural policy reform and realised that milk quota held on 31 March, 2005, could have a significant effect.
x Beef producers were given a timely reminder yesterday that despite the impending implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy reforms, they will still need to hold the necessary level of quota to claim the suckler cow premium for 2004. Speaking in Perth yesterday, Spencer Hayes, of brokers and consultants Hayes McCubbin & Macfarlane, said farmers should act quickly to ensure that they receive their claims in full.
JANUARY Today-6: Oxford Farming Conference, Examination Schools, Oxford. : Course Information Evening, Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester, 7pm. Details: 01305 215100 19-20: LAMMA 2011 farm machinery equipment and services show, Newark Showground, Nottinghamshire, 8.30am-5pm. Details: 0845 3316123 21: Burns Night Supper for Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution and Farm Crisis Network, Langstone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish Warren. Details: 01626 889457 25, 26: British Cattle Conference, Telford Golf and Spa Hotel, Shropshire. Details: 01409 241579 31: Devon Farm Management Association lecture by Graham Harvey, agricultural story editor for The Archers, on "Getting your story across," Seale Hayne, 8pm. Details: 01884 266500 FEBRUARY 2: Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Show, Royal Ba...
Given the history of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, with all its waste, excesses and corruption, we should not be surprised by the recent news about fish being thrown back dead into the sea having been already caught. But even by the EU's extravagant wastefulness, it is indeed wrong and immoral that between 40% and 60% of caught fish are thrown back dead because of the quota system which exists.
EVEN if the just-completed free trade deal between Australia and the United States is more about politics than economics, the agreement has sent shivers down assorted Kiwi spines as people contemplate the doleful prospect of investment and jobs crossing the Tasman in pursuit of American market opportunities. Already warnings have been issued that new manufacturing capacity and the employment that goes with it will trend toward Australia, and that's not in the economic interests of New Zealand. However, others have downplayed the significance of the deal. Massey University agribusiness expert Bill Bailey, for instance, says the agreement, which isn't a foregone conclusion yet because it has to be approved by the US Congress, was more of a political statement than a substantive economic o...
THIS week Brian Cowen found himself heckled by militant farmers when he turned up to open a new stretch of motorway near Ballinasloe. Seven days earlier, this time in West Cork, the Minister for Agriculture, Brendan Smith, had also faced the wrath of hundreds of furious farmers. From across Munster they came in their droves that day to 'greet' the minister when he came up to open a e10.6million cheese plant in the town of Ballineen. On that occasion, Brendan Smith found himself under siege as his car was attacked - the doors kicked and the roof battered with placards - while he sat nervously inside. Two days after the Cork incident 7,000 farmers turned up to protest outside the minister's constituency office in Cavan.
... whom are low-income farmers, whose agricultural viability will now be devastated. Take the largely...Frantically, the Quota system had to be introduced to stabilise prices an...
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