This week’s Budget included an announcement about an increase to the Annual Investment Allowance from £200,000 to £1m from January 2019. This relief allows expenditure on plant, machinery, integral features of a building and some fixtures and fittings up to…
The Agriculture Bill has now gone to Committee stage in the House of Commons and you can submit comments to the Committee – see the following link for details Please talk to your MPs about the impact of the…
Countryside Productivity Scheme Small Grant won’t re-open until early 2019 Despite reporting on its website for the last 6 months that the Small Grant would reopen in the “autumn”, Defra has now announced that the scheme won’t re-open until the…
The West Coast Grassroots club had a separate meeting with grassland specialist, Charlie Morgan, before the main Farmer Network event at Rigg House Farm near Workington on 24th August. Six of the club were able to make it for a…
It was a miserable wet evening which gave farmers the opportunity to come out in force with almost 60 in attendance at our Livestock Management event on the 3rd September. The evening started off with the opportunity for farmers to…
One of our company aims is to raise the profile of farming to the public which we achieve by holding events and working with organisations, the media and schools. The Farmer Network’s “Fell Gather” is one such event that we…