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Recent content by nelly55

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    Genuine farm sale of machinery

    What’s the saying” Buyer beware” it is in the horse world
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    Highest paying non rotational CS or SFI option ?

    Winter Bird Mixture plus Supplementary Feeding plus No Insecticide plus Hedges and DD payment? £1340/ha plus Hedges per year? Is this still available my head is in a spin ,got lots of notes after meeting with land agent.
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    So Whats Init For Us Who Try To Do The Right Thing?

    We can all jump up and down,but we are where we are,flat broke.Starmer still writing chqs out we can’t afford according to Reeves.Figures can be whatever this goverment want .Until someone says enough is enough it is going to get worse.Let’s face it are we the fools working all hours ,Lots don’t...
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    Neighbours cutting holes in our hedges

    Go and explain the hedge is there for a reason ,you don’t mine it cut tidy but due to environmental policies you have signed up to the hedge has to stay.
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    Interest rates

    Well if Starmer wants everyone to own a house on low wages,he had better come up with a plan on interest rates.He wants growth ,money is required for growth not the Micky mouse money on the stock market.I have just read on a local Fb page that our local council is handing out thousands to...
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    In Government news this morning

    Pay the correct price for farm produce would be a start ,clean rivers out and most of all get someone on the team of advisors who know,understand and Flippin care about farming,food production and the rural countryside .Not some idiot with rose tinted glasses on who thinks cows jump over the...
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    Are we heading for a massive IHT tax grab

    If you enter this country illegally you leave ,simple.They have left a safe country when they got in a boat .£10 million a day and she hits pensioners first.The first cuts should be all the perks MPs get,starting with their heating allowance no funding second homes .If you can’t manage on your...
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    Bank of England

    BOE told everyone interest rates had to go up to cut inflation now it’s at 2% and no cuts was that a lie.
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    New Cross Compliance Measures - Scotland

    Round here they seem to have given up on drainage ,I’m not sure where the river is today for all the weeds in it.
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    Who’s thinking of calling it a day

    When I have asked non farming folk about farming they nearly always say you all have big posh houses,4x4 and a lifestyle I would never have.Afraid thats the life most see looking in,which in most cases is far from reality.Yet they have posh houses,posh cars ,lots of holidays and certainly don’t...
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    Who’s thinking of calling it a day

    With all the uncertainly over different tax rules,prices and farming low on labours priority is it worth the hassle,
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    Agricultural Property Relief being actively looked at by Labour "Guardian"

    On the pension front,luckily my banking career started pre 1975 and I get a defined benefit pension when I turned £60 .Staff joining the bank after 1975 have a lovely clawback on their pension once they hit 67 pension age a shock for some
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    And so it begins - Telegraph

    Are teachers leaving because the kids have no respect anymore ,because no one can tell them off.
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    Agricultural Property Relief being actively looked at by Labour "Guardian"

    Another thing that needs looking at is retirement age in the public sector ,if you want to retire at 55 ok but you get your public sector pension at 67 .Final salary pensions have cost companies and the public sector a bill that they can’t afford .All my asts and fhl s are up for sale I can’t...
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    Agricultural Property Relief being actively looked at by Labour "Guardian"

    If they tax private pensions the public sector pensions are taxed the same.We are heading into a world of better off having nothing
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