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It’s All About Image

2:11pm Friday 4th February 2011

Farmer bashing became popular again recently as reports in many national newspapers went down the rather weary route of examining the subsidies paid to farmers to produce food mountains.

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Capital taxes policy - a brighter future ahead?

2:16pm Friday 4th February 2011

The government’s new approach to making tax policy announced in June 2010 at the same time as the emergency budget is very welcome. There have been three major steps forward: • Step 1 was the publication, also in June 2010, of a consultation document on tax policy making, the response to which was later published in December 2010.

A New Focus for Rural Areas

2:18pm Friday 4th February 2011

The recent weather has given cause for thought because if more extreme weather is becoming the norm, insulation and fuel economy – which were already high on the agenda - will stay up there, and water conservation and keeping stock in a new climate will present new challenges.

There may be turmoil ahead

2:20pm Friday 4th February 2011

The economy and the new Government’s responses to the challenges it poses are changing the rules and structures to which we have come accustomed - all of which will contribute to 2011 being something of a year of turmoil.

A Year for the Entrepreneur

2:23pm Friday 4th February 2011

Having read what many of the respected forecasters predict for 2011 it is difficult to pick out a clear consensus, but few of them pay much attention to matters rural anyway. As ever, the New Year seems to hold mixed fortunes for us depending on who you listen to.