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Wood fibre cost fall
Wood fibre costs for the global pulp industry fell in the 2Q/10 after having increased for 18 months, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly
The global pulp industry benefited from lower wood fibre costs and higher product prices in the 2Q/10. Wood chip and pulpwood prices fell the most in the US, Sweden, Finland, Australia and Eastern Canada. Both the softwood and hardwood wood fiber price indices (SFPI and HFPI) fell for the first time since early 2009, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.
 
Safferys spokesperson on renewables
The Landed Estates & Rural Business Group of Chartered Accountants, Saffery Champness, has appointed Shirley Mathieson as a press spokesperson on environmental and green issues. Shirley joins a group of partners who have a wealth of experience in advising large rural estates and who provide advice to the press on all aspects of tax and rural business management. A partner at the Inverness office, Shirley provides specialist accounts and tax advice to private clients, landed estates and commercial organisations.
 
West Midlands rural regeneration conference

Advantage West Midlands-backed Rural Regeneration Zone (RRZ) Annual Conference will focus on working together to deliver rural regeneration in a new era.  The high profile event, which is being held at Ludlow Racecourse on Friday 2nd July, will provide a unique opportunity to look at ways in which the Zone is helping drive forward the area’s emergence from the downturn and the opportunities/challenges that will no doubt arise from a new political landscape. A new announcement on broadband provision will headline the Conference and there will be a host of keynote speakers on hand to debate present and future issues, including Chairman of Advantage West Midlands Sir Roy McNulty, Jon Dover from Care Farming West Midlands and the possibility of a Minister from the new coalition Government.

 

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Global sawlog prices up 17% in past 12 months PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Vaughan   
Monday, 14 June 2010 16:38

 Sawlog prices - highest level quarterly rise in over a year

In the 1st quarter of 2010,the  Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) reached US$ 76.77/m3, the highest level in over a year, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Much of the increase has been the result of a weaker US dollar, but sawlog costs have also gone up in local currencies in many markets, including Finland, Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Russia and New Zealand.

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North Yorkshire farm is opportunity of a lifetime PDF Print E-mail
Written by John Vaughan   
Monday, 14 June 2010 16:33

 Mowthorpe Farm in the Forge Valley

The Shiptonthorpe office of George F. White has announced the sale of Mowthorpe Farm, Hackness near Scarborough which they say is, “A once in a lifetime opportunity for someone to buy their own slice of the very best rural England and Yorkshire has to offer in the most tranquil of settings.” Mowthorpe Farm set at the entrance to the beautiful Forge Valley at the foot of the North Yorkshire Moors is a productive mixed arable and livestock farm. At 336.72 acres, this is an extensive piece of land for this part of North Yorkshire which incorporates the majority of the valley’s arable land.

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BASIS training for farmers and advisers is a gain for wildlife PDF Print E-mail
Written by Charlie Jacoby   
Wednesday, 02 June 2010 05:25

Otley College in Ipswich has joined forces with the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust to offer a ground-breaking three-day Conservation Management course which will help equip farmers and their advisers with the wide range of environmental expertise needed to ensure the success of the recently launched Campaign for the Farmed Environment. 

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FUW members raise Glastir issues with new CCW leader PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Lewis   
Thursday, 03 June 2010 08:45

 FUW president Gareth Vaughan (centre) welcomes Morgan Parry (tight) and Richard Vaughan

Welsh farmers today raised their reservations about the difficulties they face in gaining entry to the Welsh Assembly Government's Glastir agri-environment scheme with Mr. Morgan Parry, the new chairman of the Countryside Council for Wales. Morgan Parry, who was appointed in March, told Farmers' Union of Wales land use committee members he was keen to learn from farmers and wanted to build on the good relations set by his predecessor.

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The Emergency Budget - Six suggestions from Saffery Champness Landed Estates Group PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Lewis   
Friday, 21 May 2010 14:43

 

 Mike Harrison - Saffery Champness

 It has been announced that an Emergency Budget will be unveiled by the new Chancellor, George Osborne, on the 22nd June 2010.  With the country edging slowly out of recession and with a need for a rise in taxes to reduce the Government budget deficit, Mike Harrison, a partner at Saffery Champness Landed Estates & Rural Business Group, sets out six measures that could assist the rural economy and limit the adverse affects of tax increases previously announced:-

Last Updated on Friday, 21 May 2010 14:48
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