Graham's, Scotland's largest independent dairy company, based at Bridge of Allan, has increased the price it pays its 50-plus suppliers by 0.8p per litre to 26.4p per litre for 4% milk before volume bonuses.
WHEN I told you a couple of months ago that Maitland Mackie, my first cousin removed several times up the food chain, had taken a bet of £5000 that the price of oil would exceed $200 a barrel in two years, some people said he was mad and others said he had more money than sense.
Food security moved higher up the political agenda at Holyrood this week when Conservative opposition spokesman for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Ayr MSP John Scott, led a debate on the subject.
Richard Lochhead, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, yesterday relaunched the Whole Farm Review Scheme that helps farmers identify how best to maximise their business potential.
Prospects for the dairy industry are good, as trading conditions for farmers continue to improve, reckons Dairy UK in response to DairyCo's annual survey of farmer intentions.
When, last year, the price of wheat started rising, Black Bob jumped at the first offer of £100 a tonne. What a success! That was up 25% on 2006. Ah, but it wasn't a success. It was a disaaaster!
Farmers in the south of England can at last begin the battle against bluetongue disease now that the first batch of vaccine has been sent out to vets this week.
A REVIEW of the British Wool Marketing Board (BWMB) by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has recommended that the board include in its annual report to ministers a summary of the state of the pension fund and the relationship between the board's assets and the fund's liabilities.
The Farmer is now the veteran of two major pieces of bionic
surgery. Both are about the same cost. The knee was done in a private hospital and the hip on the National Health Service. So how
did the two experiences compare?
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