Guarded welcome as lower rates for subsidy cuts are revealed There was a collective sigh of relief from farmers when the scale of compulsory deductions on farm subsidies were revealed at yesterday's Beef Tech event.

From: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK) | Date: June 1, 2007 | Copyright information

There was a collective sigh of relief from farmers when the scale of compulsory deductions on farm subsidies were revealed at yesterday's Beef Tech event.

Royal Northern Agricultural Society president Willie Mackie announced the figures - and the executive's separate announcement on a pounds10million new entrants scheme - as the specialist showcase for the beef industry was opened at Savoch, Lonmay, near Fraserburgh. More than 5,000 attended.

Farmers had been expecting more than a fifth knocked off their subsidies to make good the multimillion-pound hole in the executive's ...

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