Livestock market at top of council agenda

3:16pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008

Thanks to all those who attended the meeting at Ryedale Council offices last Thursday.

Milestone meeting on market looms

9:39am Thursday 26th June 2008

The saga of Malton market heads for another milestone this evening at 6.30pm when the policy and resources committee receives the report of the strategy steering group.

Report on market’s future goes back to council

2:23pm Wednesday 18th June 2008

Since that splendid turnout on March 5 when Ryedale Council chamber was filled with the farming fraternity, the steering group which was then proposed has stuttered and stumbled through several meetings.

Cash injection to back farmers’ bio-energy bids

9:33am Thursday 12th June 2008

Whatever you may think of the heated debate as to whether our agricultural land should be producing food or energy crops, the Government has taken a very positive leap onto the side of the bio-energy support groups. This week it has announced grants of up to £200,000 for farmers to invest in biomass and this will be a cash injection at the point of production. The main stumbling block seems to be one of timing as the deadline for applications is put at August 5 for individual businesses and September 5 if you are a producer group – so you need to get your skates on. The scheme will fund the following investments:

Be prepared for first stage of new stewardship rules

3:52pm Wednesday 4th June 2008

NATURAL England has confirmed that it is going to implement the first stage of its changes to the Environmental Stewardship rules this summer; and for those farmers already in the scheme and those preparing to make an application, you need to be aware of the proposals.

Health check brings on move to drop subsidies

10:44am Thursday 29th May 2008

FOLLOWING the major reforms of 2003, the CAP five-year health check is firmly in the European debating arena and the German Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, is pushing hard to drop production subsidies.

EU spray restrictions threaten food production

9:51am Thursday 22nd May 2008

Sometimes I wonder if the Brussels bureaucracy has been infiltrated by the Russian Secret Police or another anti-western politburo; such are the barmy proposals that the EC is capable of churning out.

Going round in circles on livestock market

4:00pm Thursday 15th May 2008

I knew there was a good reason why I never went into politics and for the most part it is neatly contained in the steering group appointed by our council to look at the consultants' report on Malton's future.

Crucial first jabs in fight against midge

10:44am Thursday 8th May 2008

In the face of potential disaster it is both a relief and pleasure to report that the first two batches of three million doses of bluetongue vaccine were delivered last week.

Farmers fail to reap any benefits from wheat

12:16pm Thursday 1st May 2008

IN Ryedale we may be waiting for a little warmth to swell the grain, but in this day and age even the UK crop as a whole has little effect on market prices.

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