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Milk payment up

1:00pm Friday 3rd September 2010

Milk Link increased its member milk price by 0.5 pence per litre from August 1. This was the second month in a row that Milk Link had increased its milk price, having raised it in July by 0.75ppl.

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Minister to speak

9:00am Friday 3rd September 2010

Jim Paice, minister of state for agriculture and food, will be the speaker at a Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust lunch to be held at the Somerset County Cricket Club, in Taunton, Somerset on Thursday, October 14.

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Challenging autumn for beef industry

1:00pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

THE beef industry is facing a challenging autumn and winter.

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RPA ‘not well run’

9:00am Thursday 2nd September 2010

THE latest government report on the performance of the Rural Payments Agents (RPA), published at the end of July makes worrying reading. It would seem that few, if any, lessons have been learnt from all the problems encountered over the last five years.

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Support for Cornish Farmers

2:39pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

LLAMA Lland, near Truro, Cornwall, has an exciting new future thanks to a business scheme designed specifically to help and support Cornish farmers.

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