The tour, entitled Learning to Farm With No Support is aimed at future leaders of the agricultural sector, the study tour will provide an insight to min/no till systems and role of GM’s together with establishing the competitive threat of low cost beef to UK Agriculture. Delegates will see how other farmers and competitors on the world commodity markets operate their businesses and how some of the simplicity of approach to production and margin protection may be applied to UK agriculture.  This study tour is being run with grant support from Landskills East. For further information and booking details, please see the attached.

Following the highs of 2008 and the lows of early 2009, there is renewed interest in the agricultural land investment markets of Central and Eastern Europe and South America, says property and business consultants Brown & Co.