The most common questions ever asked of the Rostons team are:
When is the land market going to peak?
and
What are the current predications for land values?
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Fracking v Methane Extraction – what’s the difference?
Given the saturation media coverage it’s virtually impossible not to know a little about fracking for shale gas, but many people might not have heard about coal-bed methane extraction.
Do not be mistaken – they are not the same thing.
Basic Payment Scheme update
Details of the new Basic Payment Scheme are beginning to trickle through from both England and Wales. Here is Rostons’ current update of the new rules.
AMC’s lending increases
Last year AMC saw an increase of 12% on 2012 in the number of applications for borrowing to farmers.
Enviromental Stewardship Agreement – Payment Changes !
It has recently been announced by Natural England that from the 1st January 2015 all current Environmental Stewardship Agreements will be realigned to run from January to December every year.
Welsh Online Single Payment Application Form Go Live !
Rostons submitted its first Welsh Single Payment form online in a trial prior to the online system going live for Welsh farmers this week on the 17th February.
The new online system and the requirement to get all farmers in Wales to submit their forms online by 2016 is yet another added complication for Welsh farmers on top of the changes to the scheme due to the Common Agricultural Policy reform.
Rostons Seminars Success
In the last month Rostons have held a round of seminars across Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales at Knutsford to Tarporley, Whitchurch, Llangollen and St Asaph.
The seminar covered such topics as CAP reform, land values, rents and contract farming.
The Forest & Farming Improvement Scheme is Here!
It has been announced today by DEFRA that the third round of the Farming & Forestry Improvement Scheme Grant, which expects to award around £10 million of grants to successful applicants will be launched on the 4 February 2014 and will then close on the 4 April 2014.
Milk Quota Comment Leads to Panic Buying
Ros Rimmer of Rostons Land & property Agents, observed Diary Farmers falling into a state of panic last Friday following a comment in the press that if production continued to increase month on month over the next three months the UK as a whole could come close to hitting quota for the first time in 10 years.