United Kingdom-Milk Prices cut.

FARMER co-op Dairy Farmers of Britain, with headquarters in Cheshire, has cut its milk price by a further 1.1p per litre from last Thursday, increasing the total scale of its price cuts to 3.1ppl since November. NFU dairy board chairman Gwyn Jones said: "Our members are telling us that they are deeply concerned by this latest price cut, which was unexpected and which has been hastily imposed. DFB must be very clear and open with its members about the reasons behind these cuts and re-assure farmers about the future strategy of the company."

THE Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution is organising an evening of February Fun for All Ages, involving bangers and mash and a beetle drive on February 28. It will be held in Rattery Village Hall, near Totnes, starting at 7pm. More details are available on 01364 73479.

JOINING Stags’ Rural Property Consultancy team at Exeter is Graeme Biffen, who is the son of two chartered surveyors, and grew up on the family farm. Educated in Taunton, and having travelled widely in his gap year, Mr Biffen gained a BScEcon (Hons) degree at Swansea University, followed by a Distinction in his Post-Graduate Diploma in Surveying from the College of Estate Management, Reading. Stags’ Rural Property Consultancy team in Exeter provides professional advice to farmers and rural landowners throughout Devon and Somerset.

THERE are still a few places available at the Cornwall Federation of YFCs’ Winter Conference, to be held next Tuesday at the Royal Cornwall Showground, Wadebridge. Paul Cottingham of the NFU will talk about NVZs, Chris Burke of Natural England on open access and farmers’ rights and responsibilities, Mary Coombe of FWAG on farmland birds, and Glyn Davies of the Beekeepers’ Association on honey production. It starts at 10am and for more details phone 01208 893081.