Summary
WILBERT Girvan insists that he is not a pessimist. But he and son Scott have still cut back their successful suckler herd by about 25 per cent. He believes they will not be alone over the next two or three years as Scotland's quality beef producers realise what is happening to their business with the disappearance of direct production subsidies.
These payments, which were directly and indirectly worth about GBP 350 per suckler cow, will be replaced by a single annual farm payment, due in December this year. He is not impressed by that as an aid to farming 1,740 acres of challenging Scottish Borders hill at Buckholm, near Galashiels. About 700 acres of the rented farm is enclosed permanent pasture on heavy, stony clay, the other 1,000 or so rocky hill with a thin layer of peat.See the full content of this document
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Cap Reform Leaves Much to Beef About
On it, since he moved there from a family partnership with his brother at Gateshaw in 1979, he has established a successful business, now based on Luing cows, with a combination of cattleman's ...
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