REPOSSESSION - What to expect if your farmhouse is to be repossessed.
The nature of farming is that often the Bank has a charge over a farmer’s home to support the business borrowing. This charge may be part...
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- Feb 15
- 2 min
Lack of Incentive? Or Lack of Trust?
Single Farm Payment saw an average cut of 22% for farmers last year with the money supposedly diverted to the Sustainable Farm Incentive...
- Feb 6
- 8 min
DEALING WITH CROP FAILURE
INTRODUCTION This guide is designed primarily for UK arable farmers but can be applied to others especially those businesses with a...
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
Boris's Kettle an Energy Saving tip
Temperature control kettle This week saw Boris Johnson rambling on about how spending £20 on a new kettle could save you money. So is...
- Aug 24, 2022
- 4 min
Profits Warning for your Holiday Stay
Farmers are consistently being told to diversify their businesses and one of the most common forms of diversification is the rural...
- Aug 9, 2022
- 5 min
Could you identify slavery in your business?
I was talking to a canteen worker in a local food processing factory in Spalding a few months ago when they described how the gang labour...
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
The Importance of Listening about Health and being Listened to.
I have just been listening to Barbara Bray’s podcast about Women Positively Ageing and the first episode is about gut health. Now it may...
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
Lonely
I know many farmers, several tweeters, and a few friends that all express the same feeling at different times. Loneliness. Regardless of...
- Jun 13, 2022
- 5 min
Inertia of Farming
Beware the inertia of farming. It is perhaps the most commercially and emotionally hazardous factor of farming. It is the tendancy to...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
What Bank Manager?
In July 2021 I posted a detailed description on how a Bank manager views a farm for lending risk purposes. The advice in it still holds...
- Apr 21, 2022
- 6 min
KNOW YOUR EGGS
In the past few days I have been listening to egg farmers, one face to face, three on the phone. In addition I have been listening to...
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
KEEP YOUR BLOODY DOG ON A LEAD!
In my third post looking at problems farmers have with dogs and people I look at livestock worrying. This is intended to be a view of the...
- Mar 9, 2022
- 7 min
Principles of Self Defence
This is the second of three posts where I look at problems farmers have with dogs and people. The first post looked at Coursing and some...
- Mar 5, 2022
- 10 min
Coursing and Poaching – a problem old and new.
In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...
- Feb 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Identity Trap
All of us can fall into the trap of identifying ourselves by our job. The longer you are in a particular job, whether it be in a food...
- Jan 24, 2022
- 9 min
Fraud and the Vulnerable
“There is a sense the victims of fraud feel abandoned.” Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird. (BBC Radio 4 MoneyBox 22Jan 2022) The crime...
- Jan 8, 2022
- 2 min
Succession - The Need to Talk and Listen
Once upon a time there were two brothers, very healthy and in their late sixties, one had no children, the other had a son who was in the...
- Dec 2, 2021
- 4 min
Who's your "Julie"?
As a volunteer for LRSN I am lucky, I have a whole army of Julies and I have needed them. But I never thought I would. Farm Community...
- Sep 27, 2021
- 12 min
ALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US part 7
In my last post on change I express my concern that current policy is likely to see thousands of arable farmers forced from their living,...
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
ALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US part 6
PLANNING CHANGE Assess your farming businesses and its strengths and weaknesses. Keep it simple. Write them down. Understand what your...
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