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Who do you use for livestock insurance? Do you use different companies for different animal types Cattle/Sheep/Pedigree or strike a better deal with one for all? Once I get a few company names I'll stick a poll up to make it easier.

As Farm Safety Week gets underway, farmers are being reminded to spend five minutes each day checking over operations on their holding. Figures show agriculture remains the industry with the highest rate of serious and fatal accidents. In 2012/13 29 farm workers and seven members of the...

@Guy Smith do you need to tell us something?:D http://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/11275970.Royal_approval_for_Farm_safety_game/?ref=rss Looks like this interactive game was a great success at the Royal Cornwall Show.

Sadly Farming is still the most dangerous profession by far, 1.5% of the UK workforce accounts for 15-20% of all workforce fatalities, shocking statistics. The Yellow Wellies Campaign is trying to highlight this and try to reverse the above statistics, "who will fill your boots" There is lots...

This Winter, because of too much rain and time on our hands, @Simon C and I came up with a theory that we think explains all sorts of things. When we talked about it we found that he had one half of the jigsaw and I the other. Since then I have discussed it with other members of this forum and...

Seem to be having issues...I tried emailing my insurance rep there this morning (was fine yesterday) and the email bounced!! So I googled up there domain records to see what was going on. Looks like someone might have forgotten to renew their domain account. Big Ooooops!!! Domain name...

Had a top link snap on a sumo trio today and the legs have gone through the back tyres like they do, will the tyres be covered by insurance or is it going to cost me?

Nice parking shame about the hole in our hedge. We actually had 50 head of cattle in this field the previous day cleaning up the remnants of the hay swaths left on the ridge and furrow. Yet another example of someone who drove through the hedge and doesn't give a t*ss about the farm damage...

Julie had to install a new cattle handling system recently, after she was hospitalised after a cow attacked her. She fancied the forcing-tub concept but, due to space and time restrictions, she was obliged to fit an entire system into a space roughly 21' x 35'. Which took some doing...

At the moment I am with NFU Mutual,who are very good. Is there any other companies I should try? I need horse,cat,dog,tractor,holiday & home Insurance. Just to see if I am not paying too much!

Just mentioned in Agricultural Matters it might be interesting if everyone just took a picture today of what you were doing, however mundane it maybe, would show the variety of work carried out, will start tomorrow.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2319417/JEFF-PRESTRIDGE-Yes-time---curb-greedy-bosses.html Boss of NFU Mutual gets his £260,000 bonus taking his pay to £1,056,816 last year , despite gross written premium income ie business done falling , life and pensions business reducing by...

Got a couple of new machines I want doing to get the 10% NFU discount anyone doing deals on this at the moment ? who to use (midlands) ?

Please gently digest this figure. And considered response: The NFUM may not always be the cheapest but I have always had good service and farmers should not forget that they support the farming unions to the tune of 5.5 million a year.