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Top links to farming and agriculture on the Net
FARMING ORGANISATIONS
WORLD
National Sheds Australian based national company that supplies industrial and farm sheds around Australia.
Food and Agriculture Organisation The United Nations organisation promoting better farming in many countries www.fao.org
World Farming International farming site www.worldfarming.com
MOMAGRI is an international agricultural think tank, based in Paris, and staffed by leading agricultural economists, with considerable influence on policy and development in Brussels and elsewhere.
UK
NFU The National Farmers Union is the senior farm representation body in Great Britain, and a good source of information www.nfuonline.com/ The NFU has a separate organisation for Wales that concerns Welsh legislation, Agri schemes funded through the Welsh Assemby Government and other matters.
Tenant Farmers Association Created to specifically help and represent those who farm without land ownership, providing expertise in legal and economic issues. www.tfa.org.uk/
Farmers Union of Wales Created to provide dedicated, fully bi-lingual, representation for farmers in Wales; has a natural leaning towards Plaid, the political 'Party of Wales' www.fuw.org.uk/
Agricultural Engineers The main organisation for farm machinery manufacturers www.bae.umn.edu
National Association of Agricultural Contractors The main representative body for farm contractors throughout the UK. www.naac.co.uk
Royal Agricultural Society of England Membership is £40 a year, benefits include the Royal Show, information www.rase.org.uk
UK REGIONAL FARMING ORGANISATIONS
Herefordshire Rural Hub is a comprehensive source of information for farmers in the Herefs area which provides timely advice for regulations, deadlines, closing dates and grants; technical help for grass and arable; contacts and application forms for events such as LEAF Open Farm Sunday, open events and contacts with the numerous organisations that offer a service to farmers. A Rural Hub in the true sense of the word. The Hub coordinator is Cathy Meredith and the Administrator Frances Keogh. You can also follow us on twitter@Hfds_RuralHub and on Facebook - search Herefordshire Rural Hub
UK Agri ADVISORS
Webb Paton have an excellent page on entitlements, the trading of EU subsidies, subsidies and farm business tenencies www.webbpaton.co.uk/
Wright Hassall Solicitors have published a useful guide to buying and selling farmland , it covers the pitfalls, methods of buying and selling, contracts, personal and property rights:
ADAS
ADAS is a top farm consultancy, involved in many government sponsored studies and projects, but which also works for individual farmers and farm groups. www.adas.co.uk
Farming Futures
provides inspiration and information on how to prepare your business for the impacts, opportunities, risks and responsibilities that climate change brings. It is a communications collaboration between the National Farmers' Union, Country Land and Business Association and the Agricultural and Horticultural Research Forum (representing the agricultural and horticultural levy boards), the Agricultural Industries Confederation, Forum for the Future and Defra. www.farmingfutures.org.uk/x8.xml
Agriclass is a fascinating directory of properly useful web sites. Don't visit unless you have a spare half hour, and only if it's raining!! This page is for machinery parts http://www.agriclass.co.uk/directory/machineryparts.html
Grainman Grainman is a direct link to Glencore Grain. Whether you need a price, check figures or are looking for a quote www.grainman.co.uk
The Farming Forum A rapidly expanding forum site with members across the globe and now inside the top 1,000 websites in the UK. The site provides price monitoring and comparison, as well as workshop ideas, machinery, business and many other topics. https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/
Britishfarmingforum The discussion board every farmer should join. This dedicated forum is well moderated (no rubbish is included) and well organised. FARM IDEAS has adopted britishfarmingforum as it's discussion board of choice, and hope you will as well.
The Dairy Development centre is centred in Gelli Aur and provides technical and market information for farmers. Funded by the Welsh Assemby Government, Farming Connect (a publicly funded extension organisation) and DairyCo, the levy board. www.ddc-wales.co.uk
John Finnemore Advice on mole control www.walcotefarm.co.uk
SITES FOR INVENTORS
A Better Mousetrap Genuinely impartial advice and help for inventors. Since 1983 Graham Barker and his colleagues have helped in some way with well over 5000 invention ideas providing inventors with the kind of impartial advice and help that is rarely available elsewhere. Their USP is ‘being there’ at the early stages of invention, when inventors need advisers and service providers who are sympathetic, knowledgeable and realistic in equal measure. http://www.abettermousetrap.co.uk/
FARM MANAGEMENT
Small Business Software Management Tool i.Agri Ltd develops and markets the 'Landmark Software for the Land and Small Business' range of software which is written specifically for farm and business accounting operations in all countries around the world. Our book keeping management software offers unique tools for financial planning, budgeting, invoicing and reporting. http://www.iagri.com/farming_sites.htm
SOIL AND RELATED MANAGEMENT
RegenAG UK (RAUK) is a platform which connects farmers, smallholders, and other interested parties with leading pioneers and trainers/experts in Regenerative Agriculture - via short courses, seminars and workshops, and through advisors www.regenag.co.uk
BASE UK is for farmers & individuals who are interested in conservation agriculture and has been formed to run in parallel with the innovative and influential group led by Frederic Thomas with over 1,000 members. BASE stands for Biology Agriculture Soil & Environment and follows the principles of Conservation Agriculture which is fundamentally about carbon management in soil – based on 3 core principles: Minimum soil disturbance; Residue cover on the soil; Rotations. www.base-uk.co.uk
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an agro-ecological approach to farming which addresses the problems and weaknesses in conventional tillage agriculture. Zero or minimum soil disturbance using no-till seeding and weeding. Maintenance of permanent soil mulch covers in crop residues and growing cover crops. Cropping system diversity by crop rotations, associated cropping. www.conservation-agriculture.co.uk