The Farming Forum

For Sale - £3,650,000

• 5/6 double bedrooms
• 4 reception rooms
• Swimming pool
• 245 acres of farmland
• Sporting rights
• Only five miles from the popular market town of Sudbury
• Double garage with converted office space
• Secluded position with gardens overlooking farmland beyond
• Includes Basic Payment Scheme Entitlements
• Features 10.67acres of woodland

The property:
The Georgian style house, which is...

Job vacancy, agricultural machinery sales person.

For Sale - Guide Price £3,700,000

• Bare land suitable for livestock grazing and arable
• Woodland let on a long lease to the Forestry Commission
• 2 livestock farms let on Agricultural Holdings Act (AHA) Tenancies
• Range of modern and traditional farm buildings
• Vacant farmhouse and buildings with development potential

A portfolio of land and farm investments, some with development potential, mainly on long term...

Written by Rachel Martin

11% more young parents will buy dairy products according to research carried out after the second year of AHDB and Dairy UK’s marketing campaign.

The study also showed an 8% fall in the number of people cutting their dairy consumption, along with an 11% reduction in intentions to consume plant-based substitutes.

Targeting 20 to 35-year-old parents, the promotional...

Written by Matt Hopkins

Expanding wireless internet access in rural areas will continue to fuel the truly game-changing advances being made by […]

The post Opinion: 5G Wireless Internet Service is Necessary to Meet Future Farming Demands...

Written by Rachel Martin

Wales’s oldest dairy farming co-operative is celebrating record sales of £52.9 million.

The boost has allowed South Caernarfon Creameries to create 11 new jobs taking its total workforce to 130.

Based in Chwilog, near Pwllheli, the firm has expanded its product range, grown its customer base and recruited more Welsh farmers as supplying members.

The creamery, which is...

Written by Rachel Martin

British shoppers could be able to buy environmentally-friendly, healthy and affordable food under plans for a radical shake-up of the UK’s agri-food industry.

As one of the first steps, the Government is today (August 17), launching a call for evidence, giving everyone from consumers, farmers and food producers, to scientists and academics, an opportunity to shape how...

We are looking for someone to come in and join the business, for general management and looking after the digester, the equipment we have built for the cheese (including the heating system, but mainly electrical, electronic and mechanical. Programming in ladder logic also required). There will be plenty of opportunities for engineering development on the farm, to improve our own operations as well as to develop marketable systems.

We have good arable and dairy staff, who can more or less be...

For Sale - From £4,000,000

• Substantial Grade II Listed, 5 bedroom Manor House
• Detached 3 bedroom cottage (Let on AST)
• Separate farmstead with traditional and modern farm buildings
• Excellent block of arable and pasture land
• 419.67 acres (169.84 hectares)
• EPC: F-D

5 bedroom Grade II listed Farmhouse, 3 bedroom detached cottage, Separate farmstead, Productive block of arable and pasture land

Description...

A position has become available for an enthusiastic full time member of staff. We are a 1950ha Arable Share farming group based in Saffron Walden,
North Essex/South Cambs.
We are looking for a sprayer operator to use our 36m Rogator 655D. Other duties will include tractor driving and combining and general farm work. Pa1 and Pa2 and forklift are preferred, full driving licence essential.
Training will be provided. If interested please contact me with a copy of your CV. Please see website...

We’re looking for a relief milker, starting ASAP until the end of September / beginning of October.

Very flexible: you could milk mornings only, or do full days for however many days a week you’re looking for. Hourly pay, with 39 hours/week at normal rate and more than that paid as over-time.

Accommodation is available if you want / need it. Rent, water and council tax covered by the farm.

Location = Eynsford, Kent.

280 holstein milking herd, milked twice a day in a 32-32 herringbone...

Written by Rachel Martin

A new loan facility to help Welsh farmers who won’t receive their Basic Payment on day one has been announced by Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, Lesley Griffiths.

The existing Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payment window of December 2, 2019, until June 30, 2020, will be maintained, whilst a BPS Loan Scheme for farmers who don’t receive their first...

Water companies pledge to plant 11 million trees by 2030

Written by Defra Press Office


Credit: Yorkshire Water

Water UK has today (15 August) announced that English water companies have pledged to plant a combined 11 million trees over the coming...