Agriculture in the national news - August 12

Man impaled on spike in fall on Norfolk farm

A man suffered stomach injuries when he was impaled on a spike in an accident on a Norfolk farm.

The 47-year-old fell on to the spike while working on a bailing machine at West Acre near Swaffham at 1530 BST on Wednesday.

BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-10947588

Gloucestershire farmer receives long service award

A Gloucestershire farm worker has received a special award after clocking up 40 years continuous service with the same family.

Wiltshire-born Richard Young, 61, started working for Jock Mann at Oxleaze Farm, near Lechlade, on 10 August, 1970.

BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8904000/8904056.stm

Farmer calls for change in food pricing policy to boost incomes

FARM incomes should be based more on the food they produce and less on support schemes and subsidy payments, according to one Yorkshire farmer.

Richard Findlay, who farms from Westerdale in the North York Moors, said food needed to be priced more realistically to ensure a more stable basis for farm incomes, rather than making farmers reliant on other streams of funding.

Yorkshire Post

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Farmer-calls-for-change-in.6469164.jp

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