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Rising opportunity for dairy beef

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Further opportunity for profitable dairy beef market

Beef farmers are being urged to re-evaluate their approach to dairy beef as it provides huge potential for growth and opportunity to boost production while meeting market demands.

Speaking at a recent Crediton Milling Company (CMC) meeting, founder of Straightline Beef, Robert Drysdale said current UK beef production stands at 2.5 million head a year - 1.9 million head of which is prime beef.

“We produce half a million head fewer beef cattle than what we eat – and global demand is rising - so there’s an opportunity here,” explained Mr Drysdale.

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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