Invest in farm machinery after the new year to benefit from tax break
Farmers thinking of buying new machinery should wait until January 2013 and save themselves thousands of pounds in tax.
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Extreme weather has columnist Tim on and off the sprayer
Farewell to a giant from the hills
Clive Langford Mycock who has died aged 65 was a fourth generation farmer and a commentator who said what he thought and felt with passion.
March 3 date for Whitbourne hedging competition
Farming Talk: Ministers may fight ruling on solar payouts
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Digital Editions Farming Talk: Time to think about next season
The emergence of snowdrops denotes the closing curtain on the sporting shoot season. I hope that those who have a day or two in hand find the finale to be just that.
Farming Talk: Hoping that our busy days continue
Well, we’ve moved from the hectic festive season with oven-ready geese, turkey, sausages, lamb and beef joints on the market, to the calm after the storm that is January and the New Year.
Farming Talk: Storms leave us out of touch with the world
We all take for granted modern communications technology. Instant contact is now the norm until something goes wrong, like the early January storms dropping a tree through the telephone line in the middle of a field about a mile from us.
Farming Talk: Policy reform ideas leading to confusion
Recently debated and proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy has led to confusion around the ability of some farmers to be eligible for the new Direct Payment Scheme beyond December 31, 2013.
Farming Talk: Best invitation countryside is likely to get
What has happened to the planning system recently?
Single payment hits bank in record time
I was pleased to see that on December 1 Her Majesty’s government came up trumps for the first time ever and our Single Payment was credited to my bank account along with the upland hill farming organic allowance
Red diesel alert for farm tractor road gritters
Farmers using tractors to grit road should check the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) website to see if they can use red diesel.
Entries invited for Farming for the Future competition
The Farmer/Barclays Farming for the Future competition has been launched – have you got what it takes to win?
YFC take to the water to raise funds for charity
Shropshire YFC have asked each of their 19 Club to take part in a Canoeing Challenge to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Sun shines upon those farming in the hills
The blistering hot weather at the end of July hasn't half been welcomed by we hilly billys as things up in the hills don't quite evolve as in the lowlands, writes Clive Langford Mycock
Good year for we farming hilly billys
So far 2011 is proving to be one of the best years I can remember, writes Clive Langford Mycock
Organic farmers have the last laugh after claims of longer life
For as many years as I can remember the vast majority of readers in our wonderful farming magazine The Farmer have had great delight in taking the Mickey and being anything but flattering about the way in which we brown rice and sandal boys produce food.