{"id":21645,"date":"2013-07-24T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7aec54477c3f4034b42a5a2b0a74f0f6"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:53:00","slug":"press-release-farming-resilience-summit-preparing-for-business-risks-in-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=21645","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Farming Resilience Summit: Preparing for business risks in farming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An action plan to help farmers prepare for risks to their businesses was agreed by major banks, farming charities and farming representatives at a summit convened by Environment Secretary Owen Paterson last week.<\/p>\n

The first farming resilience summit was held earlier this year following the bad weather that placed particular financial pressures on many of Britain\u2019s farmers. <\/p>\n

The experts in banking, farming, insurance and business convened again last week to agree new action to improve farmers\u2019 resilience in the face of future challenges. <\/p>\n

Representatives from organisations including HSBC, the National Farmers\u2019 Union and the Prince\u2019s Countryside Fund will work with government to deliver the following ten-point plan:<\/p>\n

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  1. identify which farmers may be most at risk, and understand the causes of cash flow difficulties<\/li>\n
  2. maintain regular insight into at-risk farmers over the long term<\/li>\n
  3. support the recommendation in the Future of Farming Review for an industry event to develop practical advice that can help farmers retire from or exit the industry<\/li>\n
  4. consider the longer term shape and options for CAP payments, post 2020, to support greater resilience<\/li>\n
  5. explore insurance schemes and other emergency funding mechanisms<\/li>\n
  6. encourage collaboration between farmers to help manage risk<\/li>\n
  7. develop local advice groups for farmers to share information and help each other strengthen their businesses<\/li>\n
  8. develop and advocate \u20185 tools of resilience\u2019, setting out the minimum practices expected for a resilient agricultural business<\/li>\n
  9. develop tailored weather warnings and information for farmers<\/li>\n
  10. meet again at a third summit to report back on progress and confirm next steps<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Farming resilience working groups will continue to be held over the summer as the coalition of farmers, banks, charities and government refines and starts to implement the recommendations. A further summit will be held in November.<\/p>\n

    Representatives from the following organisations joined the Environment Secretary in the farming resilience summit:<\/p>\n

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    • National Farmers\u2019 Union<\/li>\n
    • The Prince\u2019s Countryside Fund<\/li>\n
    • Country Land and Business Association<\/li>\n
    • Tenant Farmers Association<\/li>\n
    • Addington Fund<\/li>\n
    • The Farming Community Network<\/li>\n
    • Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution<\/li>\n
    • NFU Mutual<\/li>\n
    • Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board<\/li>\n
    • HSBC<\/li>\n
    • Barclays<\/li>\n
    • Lloyds<\/li>\n
    • Natwest<\/li>\n
    • The British Banking Association<\/li>\n
    • Animal Health and Welfare Board<\/li>\n
    • Met Office<\/li>\n
    • David Fursdon, Chairman Future of Farming Review<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Farmers given help by major banks, farming charities and farming representatives to prepare for business risks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21652,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/21652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}