FETF Animal Health and Welfare Items Grant is OPEN NOW!!!

FETF 2024 is now open for Animal Health and Welfare applications and closes on 1 May 2024.

Minimum Grant £1,000, Maximum Grant £25,000

New items for 2024 include: calf trolley, ECV fan, water bowser with integrated trough, crutching handpiece, portable shearing kit, clipping handpiece, sheeted gates, automatic health and welfare remote monitoring system, horned cattle crush plus much more!

Full list of items can be found on the link below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/farming-equipment-and-technology-fund-2024/animal-health-and-welfare-items-and-specifications-farming-equipment-and-technology-fund-fetf-2024

Contact the Farm Office Services Team to find out more on 01629 812777.

Malcolm Gale, President of CAAV,  June 2023 – June 2024

We are delighted to share the prestigious news, that Malcolm Gale, Partner at our Uttoxeter office has reached the halfway point of his term as President of the CAAV. Malcolm, along with the other members of the presidential team, Martin Hall and Julie Liddle help to run and direct the organisation.

The CAAV is a national professional body, representing briefing and qualifying those acting and advising on agricultural and rural property and business matters across the whole of the UK. The organisation was originally founded in 1910 by local valuers’ associations to provide a national organisation with professional authority to represent valuers and ensure professional standards.

The nationally recognised status of the CAAV has been maintained for over a century and it is an honour for Bagshaws to have one of our Partners, Malcom, in such an influential role as President of the governing body of the CAAV.

Malcolm spent his early years in Derbyshire and worked on a dairy farm before starting at Bagshaws in 1982 as a clerk at Uttoxeter market. Working for a firm of agricultural Surveyors and Auctioneers opened his eyes to the wide variety of work that they carried out and persuaded him that it was something that he felt would interest him and provide a respected career.

Malcolm applied to be a student member of the RICS and subsequently obtained a place at the Royal Agricultural College where he studied from 1985 to 1988 obtaining his Diploma in Rural Estate Management. On leaving college he went to work for Hobbs and Chambers in Faringdon as he started towards completing his TPC. Malcolm moved to Wintertons at Lichfield in 1989 and passed his CAAV exams in 1990 followed by his RICS exams in 1991 as well as taking on all sheep auctioneering duties at Lichfield market.

With the advent of Bagshaws taking over Wintertons in 1995, Malcolm had returned to the firm where his journey had started and he subsequently became a Partner in 2005 working out of the Uttoxeter office. Malcolm has been President of the Staffordshire Agricultural Valuers Association as well as Chairman of the Cheshire and Derbyshire Livestock Auctioneers Association. He is an RICS registered valuer and is involved with valuation, compulsory purchase, agency, development agreements and property auctioneering.

Malcolm has been married to Linda for 32 years and they have one son, Stuart who studied at Leeds and Nottingham and is a practicing microbiologist.

In his spare time Malcolm is now occasionally seen on the golf course having decided that rugby is now easier to watch rather than play. He also enjoyed fourteen years singing in a band during which time he and Linda, aided by their friends, helped to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2024 – OPENING SOON!!!

Made up of 3 grants:

  • Improving Productivity (minimum £1,000 maximum £50,000)
  • Managing Slurry (minimum £1,000 maximum £50,000)
  • Improving Animal Health & Welfare (minimum £1,000 maximum £25,000)

50 – 60% grant available up to the average cost of item as set by the RPA

There are lots of new items this year including mobile TMR mixers, slurry separators, livestock handling equipment and water bowers with integrated water trough.

Full specification of new items can be found on the link below:

Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2024 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

For more information contact the Bakewell office on 01629 812777

Passed!!

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Well Done Emily! Hard work Pays off!

Emily is now on the BASIS Professional Register as a FACTS Qualified Adviser following the postman delivering the results this morning.

She undertook a week’s training course at Harper Adams University followed by two days of examinations and a VIVA.

We can now write Nutrient Management Plans for your farm, funding for this can be accessed through the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

All in all, a great job well done 👍

“Top performing Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC) agent in my region” says Andrew Connah

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-connah-03ab6a168_a-great-day-out-and-about-yesterday-in-beautiful-activity-7156343958158065665-h2QF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

“A great day out and about yesterday in beautiful Derbyshire, including an annual review meeting at Bagshaws LLP livestock market centre, in Bakewell, with Ivor Lowe, the top performing Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC) agent in my region for the second year running.”

Interest invited – BUILDINGS TO LET – Dark Lane Newborough DE13 8SU

6000 sq ft building range plus yard and associated lean-to sheds,

Comprising 2 x adjoining steel portal frame buildings fully clad with concrete block walls and sheet cladding, the main building range offers secure storage with roller shutter doors, water, single phase electricity, 16ft to eaves complete with concrete floor and security lighting to the substantial concrete yard area. Additional lean-to shedding providing further under-cover storage all within a secure gated site.  Suitable for a range of agricultural or commercial uses, with sufficient turning space for tri-axel articulated lorries this offers a great opportunity in a rural location being well located to near-by connecting highway routes.  Available under a fully repairing and insuring (FRI) lease from 1st April 2024 on a long term let subject to terms and conditions.

For further information please contact Bagshaws Uttoxeter 01889 562811