Property agency Strutt & Parker has made four senior appointments to its Rural team. The agency, part of BNP Paribas Group since 2017, saw a number of senior staff defect in 2021 to form the Ceres Rural agency. Chartered surveyor and...
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New manager for Oakbank
Oakbank Game & Conservation, part of the Velcourt Group farm management business since April this year, has appointed Henry Barringer as stewardship & conservation division manager. In his new post, Mr Barringer will be responsible...
OFC reports examine pros and cons of natural capital markets
The 2022 Oxford Farming Conference earlier this month saw the release of two comprehensive and timely reports focused on quantifying, qualifying and ensuring good governance in the trading of natural capital and...
Inglis grain stores on the market
FRP Advisory, the business winding up the Alexander Inglis and Son grain merchanting and storage business that went into administration last month, has put four of the company’s grain stores on the market. The administrator has instructed the Savills office in...
New directors for the OFC
The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) has selected three new directors for the 2021 to 2023 period. They are pedigree sheep farmer and consultant Liz Bowles; Emily Norton, head of rural research at Savills and a Nuffield Scholar; and Marion Regan, a director of the...
Farmland demand down amid Brexit uncertainty
Land agency Savills says its GB Farmland Update for H1 2019 saw lowest recorded acreage of publicly marketed land across Britain for almost a quarter century, save for the Foot and Mouth Disease year. The latest six-monthly total, 74,000 acres, is the lowest since...
