Originally from: Paul Buxton
                        
i> Some of his members were saying that yesterday. One who farms
i> in Hereford, four miles from the Welsh border, claims that by 2012
i> there will be a £40,000 a year difference between his business and
i> a friend in Wales with a similar size farm and livestock.

i> Several Northumberland farmers in the new classification of
i> "severely disadvantaged area" have calculated that their support
i> payment will drop by two-thirds by 2012.

It was never going to be anything else especially in the SDA areas carrying a higher stocking rate than the very worst places. Those
beef producers near to the Scottish border may get an advantage with sales to those in Scotland who look like getting an enhanced package
for beef.

i> Audrey Porksen, a tenant hill farmer’s wife near Rothbury,
i> said: "For many tenant farmers, the capital assets of their
i> business are their only pension fund – stock, equipment and quota.

I do remember when this statement was true. It hasn't applied since
the BSE outbreak. So how many years is that in which tenant farmers have had to make other provision?

Cheerio, PAul

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