Hint & Tips - Farming

Designed to provide you with valuable hints and tips, we have created a wide range of helpful factsheets to help you gain more information on important business topics.


Management Plans
Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) was launched in 2005 and has been taken up by many farmers across England since then. ELS has now been reviewed and for all agreements with a start date from 1st October 2008 onwards there have been some changes, which will be governed by the ELS handbook 2nd edition.

Collaboration and Contract Farming
Collaboration and working together is a very effective way of improving efficiency, in particular reducing labour and power costs. It is also something which farmers can directly control and influence themselves.

Diversification and Planning Permission
Agriculture is an ever changing industry. Many farmers are finding that they need to look to alternative sources of income to support their business into the future.

One way to do this is by diversification, generating income from sources other than farming.