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Irish price question
A former president of the Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute has clashed with one of Ireland's biggest estate agents over crashing property prices, says the Irish Independent. Savills' former chairman Aidan O'Hogan says prices are still falling while Savills' advice to potential purchasers is the opposite.

 
Gilbert & Sullivan farm
Just 14 miles from Marble Arch, Grimsdyke Farm, 75 acres of grade 3 pasture inside the M25 near Harrow, has a decent house and buildings and is guided at £1.2m by Bidwells, says Farmers Weekly. It was originally part of the Grimsdyke Estate, home to WS Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.

 
NFU Welsh president
Merionethshire beef and sheep farmer Ed Bailey has been elected unopposed as the new NFU Cymru president. Read more in Farmers Weekly.
 

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Intruguing history of the ' wee grey Fergie' tractor PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Vaughan   
Friday, 05 February 2010 18:58

 Fergies last longest in Scotland

Harry Ferguson revolutionised farming in the early 20th century by inventing a hydraulic system, still found in every tractor today. An accomplished pilot, engineering genius and effective salesman, Ferguson is so revered in his native Northern Ireland that his face now graces their £20 notes. However, at the largest agricultural exhibition in the Scottish Highlands last year, most of those asked knew very little about Harry Ferguson himself.

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Knight Frank says farmland values have increased 164% in 10 years PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Vaughan   
Friday, 05 February 2010 18:37

 Andrew Shirley of Knight Frank Rural Research

Over the past ten years the Knight Frank Farmland Index recorded a 164% increase in English farmland values from £1944/acre to £5,123/acre. This is especially impressive as the growth for prime residential property in Central London was a “mere” 113%, whilst the FTSE 100 share index ended the decade 22% down. As a capital asset things have turned out very well for farmland, and perhaps much better than anyone would have anticipated. But what does the future hold?

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Big land agents embrace 2010 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Charlie Jacoby   
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 09:38

 
Farmland: likely to boom, not bomb

Three big agents say just how much they are looking forward to the farmland market in 2010. Savills, Strutt & Parker and Knight Frank are all upbeat. 

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North Wales farmers raise concerns with MEPs PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Vaughan   
Friday, 05 February 2010 18:33

 Welsh delegates at the EU Parliament

A five-man delegation of Farmers' Union of Wales members from North Wales took the opportunity on a recent visit to the EU Parliament headquarters in Brussels to raise numerous issues concerning the farming industry with all four Welsh MEPs.  The delegation - vice presidents Glyn Roberts and Eifion Huws and the union's Caernarfonshire county chairman Morgan Jones-Parry, vice chairman Dewi Roberts and executive officer Gwynedd Watkin - all called for the retention of milk quotas and the historic basis for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments.

Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2010 19:29
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George F White on securing finance for farming PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alf Maxwell   
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 09:35

Michael Bell

Michael Bell from rural specialist George F White looks at current borrowing opportunities for farmers, the types of agricultural activity that are attracting investment and how this translates into best practice when looking to secure finance. 

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