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02 Oct 2004

“Farmers want a one-stop shop…it’s like Bluewater out there”

The e-world on one hand has been brilliant for farmers, who are finally
using it, but on the other they are having to employ people to fill in
all the government e-forms, which require everything from tracing
when Cow no 44 last did a poo to risk assessments on the farm pond.

There are also too many quality assurance schemes, which
means too many different inspectors/inspections required.

Lord Haskins is supposed to be in charge of trying to minimise farm
bureaucracy - eg grants coming from all different places. Two of the major
rural agencies are joining forces as part of this. I think also that more
and more of the funding - over and beyond the CAP Single Farm Payment from
next year, will ultimately be channelled through the Regional Development
Agencies, which is the sort of thing they should be doing.

Farmers want a One Stop Shop. At the moment its like Bluewater out there…

Agriculture and food production have become impracticably
bureacratically controlled - and involving far too many sources of control
and funding. It’s consultancy heaven for “rural consultants” - and the
industry is waiting to see what Haskins can get done about it.

Will farmers get what they want?

Farm and landowner lobbying is pretty well organised - lots of listening
being done but as you know Elliott Morley not keen on countryside and
Mrs Beckett only goes there once a year in her caravan. 

Direct action now being taken by some farmers and, as you will have seen,
by the hunt lobby, which left dead horses lying around Brighton this week.
ie growing frustration from group of people who have never gone beyond
marching for peace and love in their youth in the 1960s.

• Posted by Catherine Paice on 02/10/04 at 10:51am
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