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Professional Agricultural Couple Seeking Farm Tenancy / Land & Buildings (North Yorkshire).

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We are a professional, hard-working, first-generation farming couple looking to secure a long-term foundation to consolidate and scale up our sheep enterprise. We have successfully run our own independent flock for the last 3 years (including two full lambing se...

The Five Bar Gate member survey is coming out in the next week, but I have a quick question for the farmers on here who aren't Five Bar Gate members.

What's stopping you from taking part in research?

Is it lack of time, lack of awareness we even exist, survey fatigue, concerns about how data is used, not finding out results, not enough payment, or someth...

Just had the below email come through, being carried out by Grounded Research.

I'm on Grounded Research's usual volunteer panel for surveys, but this clearly came through the Red Tractor process and is being handled differently.

Haven't even opened the survey itself yet, but already it's fascinating how even just this approach compares to that of the usual Grou...

Now Scotland has unilaterally declared that it will put in place price controls for food yet some naive minister talking at the Royal Highland Show said this will not affect farmers as the hit will be taken by retailers.
Now this makes a great sound bite for the SNP but in reality can it happen?

If I was a Supermarket Boss, I think if my margin was going to be hit b...

The Silage Straw and Hay Price Tracker Thread on The Farming Forum

Please include location and price.

Offical Hay and Straw Prices are published by the AHDB here: https://dairy.ahdb.org.uk/market-information/farm-expens...