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Employing People - Staff Rostering Systems Farming Note

Employing People - Staff Rostering Systems Farming Note

Retaining high quality staff is one of the biggest challenges on most farms. Circumstances where there are long hours and difficult working conditions can result in good ...

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Employing People - Take Time to Make Time Farming Note

Employing People - Take Time to Make Time Farming Note

Are you making the most efficient use of labour on your farm. Herds on Dairy Manager Full Costs have an annual labour cost of over £44,000 per 100 cows or 3.8ppl (this i...

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Equity Partnerships Farming Note

Equity Partnerships Farming Note

Equity partnerships can help to encourage the younger generation to remain in the dairy industry, and offer an attractive exit route for the retiring farmer. They can pro...

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Essential Farm Signs Farming Note

Essential Farm Signs Farming Note

Properly signed dangers can minimise the risk of accidents, as well as the risk of litigation if things go wrong. The number of fatal accidents in agriculture remains one...

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Farm Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 Dairy Insight

Farm Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 Dairy Insight

The Farm Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024. Applications opened on the 6th of March for both the Productivity and Slurry items, with the Animal health and welfa...

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Farm Health & Safety

Farm Health & Safety

As an industry, agriculture is by far the worst offender when it comes to health & safety. Our industry represents 1.2% of the British workforce, but accounts for 20% of ...

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Farm Health & Safety Farming Note

Farm Health & Safety Farming Note

Behind each statistic of farm injury or death is a tragic story, a devastating impact on families and often to the farm business as well. It is essential that farmers tak...

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Farm Insurance

Farm Insurance

What is most commonly targeted by rural crime? How do you reduce your insurance premiums?

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Farm Protocols

Farm Protocols

A successful dairy farming business strives for outstanding performance and this can be achieved through consistent and accurate work practices. Maintaining standards acr...

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Farm Security

Farm Security

In recent months, there have been numerous high-profile farm thefts in the press, including several cases of livestock rustling.  According to the NFU Mutual Rural Crime...

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Feeding Strategy

Feeding Strategy

With feed costs rising significantly month on month, the instinct is to do something drastic and change feed type or feed rates. However, this may have a negative impact ...

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Finance Options for New Machinery Farming Note

Finance Options for New Machinery Farming Note

Read this Farming Note to understand how changes to the machinery Annual Investment Allowance influence options for financing machinery purchases, relative to the availab...

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