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Work out Your Costings – FREE TRIAL and £15 OFF for NAAC MEMBERS

Getting your costings right is vital to running a successful contracting business in the long-haul. This is increasingly important as input costs such as fuel continue to rise steeply. Click here for a free months trial of an excellent new Costs Analyser CD-Rom from ABC, with a special £15 off deal for members if you wish to buy the CD, making it just £75 (instead of £90). This is an easy way of being able to calculate the cost of taking out your kit... making sure you are not working for nothing!

The Assured Land-Based Contractor Scheme

An Independently Audited Industry Quality Standard. Click here for more details

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NAAC CONTRACTORS’ CHARGES FOR 2010/11

As input prices have soared and the cost of fuel has doubled over the last five years, with machinery prices also climbing steeply, I look back at our annual contracting prices over the same timescale and see our customers continue to get a good deal.

Whilst most prices have held from last year, many are equally not keeping pace with the relevant input costs. In theory as fuel has doubled over the last five years, our prices should have followed a similar trend... needless to say we are still way off target.

Click here to read the full story

NEW NAAC MEMBER BENEFIT!

Due to demand from members, the NAAC now has an excellent template contract farming agreement and guidance available for its members.

Put together by NAAC corporate member Samuel Rose the template agreement and guidance is designed to help contractors take the first steps towards setting up a contract farming agreement. The new document is available to NAAC members.

View the Contract Farming Agreement
(members only - you will be prompted to log on first)

RED DIESEL

If you are unsure about the legal uses of red diesel then click here for definitive new guidance. Agreed with HMRC and DVLA, the Memorandum makes it clear when land-based contractors can use red diesel within defined limits.

Further detail is available here. For supplementary information see HMRC’s Notice 75 and for specific information on grass cutting vehicles click here.

New Specialist Section

We launch a new section on our Find a Contractor pages which can help you find Members offering the more off-beat services such as plastic waste collection, farm road refurbishment, llama or goat scanning or soil sampling.


Why use an NAAC contractor?

It is critical to choose a skilled, professional contractor who is properly insured. The wrong contractor will cost you time, money and hassle in the long-run and it is important to choose your contractor on expertise and reputation, rather than just price. Every NAAC member is:

  • Covered by NAAC approved insurance
  • Approved by NAAC Council before joining
  • Operating within NAAC professional guidelines
  • Kept up-to-date with legislative changes, training and new technology affecting their industry
  • A forward thinking contractor, in control of their business and ahead of the competition
Agricultural Machinery for Sale Board

Click here for NAAC members-only area (Discussion forum, docs, merchandise etc) - for contracting members only

Bluefin (formerly Hammon Osborne insurance brokers)

Land-force Recruitment - discounts for NAAC members

Click here to view diary dates

Click here for details of corporate membership

Assured Land-based Contractor Scheme

Link to The Voluntary Initiative website
 

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