Services

• on-domestic renewable energy installations, to include solar – hot water and PV, hydroelectric, wind turbine, anaerobic digestion, heat pumps and biomass.
• Prepare cash flow advised by Gross Margin calculations and with fixed costs to be built up.
• Forecast profit and balance sheet change.
• Profit predictions and changes to the balance sheet for the business, possibly with comparison of other considered options, to be calculated and commented on. A sensitivity analysis for the main income and expenditure elements should be prepared along with some assessment of the risks associated with success or failure of the plan.
• If the report is to consider requirements and make recommendations for capital expenditure, then the capital required and how the investment is to be funded to be included in a partial or whole budget as appropriate.

Provide guidance on necessary planning, connection and other consents required from relevant bodies including local authorities, Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) and Natural Resources Wales.

• Animal welfare
• Disease profiling
• Review of routine veterinary treatments
• Benchmarking and identifying areas for improvement
• advice on improving the health status of all farmed livestock
• Biosecurity measures to reduce the risk of introducing or spreading disease

• Dairy
• Beef
• Sheep
• Pigs
• Poultry

• Business plans & Budgets
• Cashflow forecasts
• Business Financial Reviews
• Financial Restructures
• Benchmarking
• Business Planning for New Entrants
• Succession Planning

• Cropping systems and rotation
• Soil fertility
• Yield optimisation
• Conservation management policies
• Forage utilisation
• Best practice to reduce GHG emissions and pesticide use
• Alternative harvest methods
• Soil and nutrient management
• Manure management
• Compliance:
  • advice on meeting Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
• Environmental management:
  • identifying & minimising risks and improving resources

• Rural Enterprise Dwellings
• SuDs – Sustainable Drainage Systems
• Design of Farm Buildings
• Design of Slurry Stores and Silage Pits

• Single Payment Scheme
• Entitlements
• Greening, GAEC & SMRs
• On-line SPS & BPS
• Record-keeping

• Woodland planning and establishment & management specifications to meet UKFS requirements with associated costs/ budgets, implications for the wider farm business
• Grant aid available, market potential of woodlands, woodland management and planting/establishment specifications working closely with Registered Woodland Planners
• Woodland Carbon Code Registration, including all aspects of the Woodland Carbon Code Schemes
• Woodland business reviews, business development options, associated costings/cash flows, legal and financial considerations, implications for the existing business.

• Specialist Veterinary Advice & Mentoring
• To consider a specific disease problem identified by farmer/veterinary surgeon
• To provide advice addressing the sub-optimal performance of a livestock enterprise arising from animal health or welfare issues
• Provide Advice for Disease Prevention, Disease Eradication and Welfare and Responsible Ownership

• Advice on the changes in land/cropping/livestock management that would be required in order to meet the requirements of organic certification..
• Advice on the support for an Organic Conversion strategy and timetable for farmers considering organic conversion

All aspects of financial planning for organic conversion and farming

• Identification of the presence and status of habitats, biodiversity and features of environmental value with recommendation for protection and management.
• Potential and management scheme options, to consider current and possible future collaborative or individual land management scheme involvement. Identifying and advising on the partnership structures that individuals or existing farmer groups need to form to access the range of grants available.
• Financial implications of the management scheme options
• Benefits of possible benefits to livestock, biodiversity and the farm business from potential actions or changes to land management.

• Analysis of the farm approach to use of water and energy
• Feasibility of saving resource and reducing costs by reducing use, reusing and recycling.