Contract tarmmg agreements need fair reward for both parties

摘要

The season for offering, renewing and renegotiating arable contract farming agreements is opening, with a background of rising costs all round, falling Basic Payment Scheme receipts and policy uncertainty.All this makes balancing the interests of farmer and contractor a tricky task, following a season when some contractors were caught out by rising fuel prices and other costs. In some cases this resulted in a one-off payment to recognise this pressure, others already had a fuel escalator in place for this eventuality, or have introduced one.