Hannah Moule, 34, launched rural surveying firm Moule & Co in 2010 from her parents’ kitchen table with a laptop, a car and a handful of local clients.
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Some people find the idea of a career in agriculture hilarious.They think it is all mud, wellies and sticking your arm up the business end of a cow.
With the challenges of climate change and food and water security, there's never been a greater need for innovative, sustainable farming in the UK. But the industry is facing a severe shortage of new recruits. With the average age of a farmer at 58, the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) report estimates the UK will need 60,000 new entrants over the next decade.
Agriculture will play a crucial role in addressing the planet’s future needs – whether on food production, health or the preservation of the environment. But transforming the dominant agricultural model could be the greatest challenge of all.
Productivity should become the central feature for assessing the last CAP reform, says Gilles Dryancour.
CEJA has welcomed the announcement of a new support package by European Commissioner for Agriculture, Phil Hogan, on Monday 18 July at the Farm Council. However, although CEJA acknowledges that the package is going in the right direction and has taken heed of demands for new funding and assistance for farmers with cash-flow difficulties, much more needs to be done. There must be more, targeted focus on assisting young farmers in particular because they are the most susceptible to the current crisis as well as the best-placed to forge a more sustainable future for the sector.
Speaking on the subject, CEJA President Alan Jagoe welcomed the package, saying: “Any additional support to farmers today is welcome and it is crucial that particular issues, such as oversupply on the markets, are attempting to be addressed.” However, the CEJA President also expressed disappointment with a lack of targeted measures for young farmers, stating that: “It is difficult enough for young people to start a farm in the EU today due to a lack of policy tools for the improvement of access to land and credit. Now the few who have succeeded in doing so are being put at risk even further, due to a lack of measures targeting their obvious disadvantages in times of crisis compared to their more securely established counterparts.”
There are 1.8 billion people aged 15-24 in the world. That’s the the biggest proportion of the global population made up by young people in history, write ONE youth campaigners.
So your goal is to be a farm manager. But what will the people interviewing you expect to see on your CV and how should you present yourself to them?
MEPs urge the EU Commission to put forward proposals against unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, so as to ensure fair earnings for farmers and a wide choice for consumers, in a resolution voted on Tuesday. The aim should be to ensure fair and transparent trade relations among food producers, suppliers and distributors. Fair trading should in turn help to prevent overproduction and food waste, they add. Page 34 of 116