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Rural Payments Agency mapping malfunction
11:54am Thursday 9th July 2009
INSCRIBED above the entrance doors of the Rural Payments Agency offices should be the immortal words of Oliver Hardy – “This is another fine mess you have got us into”.
Have your say »Latest TB figures disgraceful
2:31pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
THE TB statistics for the first three months of 2009 make miserable reading:
Single Payment available from October
1:43pm Wednesday 24th June 2009
WITH pleasant surprise I can tell you that the EC has issued a directive to allow member countries to pay up to 70 per cent of the 2009 Single Payment as from October 16.
Grain and fertiliser rollercoaster
3:55pm Thursday 18th June 2009
SELLING houses may have been difficult this last six months, but I still wouldn’t have swapped places with a fertiliser salesman trying to justify what their industry charged farmers last autumn for a product that mysteriously seems to have lost half its value.
Get the fire brigade!
4:23pm Wednesday 10th June 2009
Facing complete meltdown in credibility, the Prime Minister has shuffled his remaining supporters to form a new Cabinet.
Sheep-tagging protest goes to the ballot box
3:28pm Wednesday 3rd June 2009
As attention this week is focused on the European elections, it becomes increasingly vital for us to put in to the Strasbourg Parliament MEPs who are at least sympathetic towards the farming industry.
MEPs’ expenses in the spotlight
11:38am Wednesday 27th May 2009
It is difficult to believe that there is anything else happening in the news apart from the current row over MPs’ expenses.
Supermarket mania sweeping our towns
12:52pm Thursday 21st May 2009
Many Malton citizens would be puzzled, if not dismayed, at the council's decision to grant planning consent for more supermarket space in the two towns.
Single Payment deadline looms
11:51am Thursday 14th May 2009
THE clock ticks inexorably down towards midnight this Friday and the deadline for putting in this year’s Single Payment application – unless you want to incur a penalty. Would that the same applied to the RPA in their obligation to pay us on December 1, but such is life at the moment; there is one rule for politicians and their bureaucratic systems and another for the rest of us.
Consumers see sense over swine flu frenzy
9:20am Thursday 7th May 2009
UNTIL this current epidemic of extremist violence, the pen was always considered mightier than the sword, but no pen could ever match the frenzy that has been whipped up by our media about the potential world disaster soon to be wrought on humanity by swine flu.
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