Agriculture in the national news - April 2

David Cameron: hunt ban ‘a mistake’

David Cameron has disclosed that he went hunting as a boy as he insisted that the fox population needed to be controlled.

In a frank interview the Conservative leader talked freely of his love of the countryside and said he was taught to shoot rabbits by his father.

Confirming that he would allow Tory MPs a free vote on decriminalising hunting with dogs if he were to become prime minister, Mr Cameron said: ” I always thought that the ban was a mistake because I think it is very difficult to enforce.

Daily Telegraph
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Tied in knots by a plethora of policies

NFU Scotland has called on rural policymakers, agricultural advisers and researchers to play their part in co-ordinating the plethora of policies being directed at Scotland’s farmers into simple, clear and concise messages.

Speaking in Edinburgh, NFUS head of rural policy Jonnie Hall said farmers were increasingly bogged down by the policy demands made of them and that it was becoming more difficult to get on with the real job of farming and producing food.

The Scotsman
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North Devonfarm worker killed in hay bale accident

A man has died in a farm accident in north Devon.

Emergency services were called to the farm in the Pyworthy area of Bideford on Monday evening.

Devon and Cornwall Police said the 40-year-old local man is believed to have died when a bale of hay fell on him from a digger he was working on.

BBC Online
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U.S.Farmers Plan a Record Soybean Planting

American farmers expect to plant 88.8 million acres of corn — the second-largest acreage since 1946 — and a record 78.1 million acres of soybeans in response to high prices for the crops, the government said on Wednesday.

While the survey results point to the prospect of bumper crops, the acreage figures were slightly below trade expectations of 89.2 million acres for corn and 78.5 million acres of soybeans.

New York Times
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‘Bearish’ US stocks data send crop prices plunging

Farm commodity prices set course for a dire end to a poor quarter after official data showed farmers and merchants had more corn and soybeans in store than had been though, overshadowing mildly upbeat planting data.

“The grain stocks report contained the biggest surprises,” Benson Quinn Commodities said.

Agrimoney
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