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The article focuses on the contractors' attitude towards the Contract Farming Agreements (CFAs). It presents a report by real estate service provider Strutt & Parker at Cereal on the impact of the contractors' demands on land bidding. It further states that land with good storage, drainage, and other facilities receive more interest from contractors. Information on the CFA earning is also provided.

The article discusses developments in farm tenancy situation in Great Britain as of early January 2014. It cites the move by Cambridgeshire's County Farm Estate to offer five-year farm business tenancies (FBT) on five arable holdings, with deadline of tenders scheduled on February 28, 2014. Among the FBTs are the Morley Farm, the Red House Farm, and the New Farm. The other farms being offered include the Holker Estates in Cumbria, England and the Burlone Tregoose Farm in Cornwall, England.

The author covers issues on agriculture in Great Britain as of June 19, 2009. He announces that their farm passed the annual Crop Assurance inspection with top marks but reveals that he was not convinced of the benefits of the initiative. He adds that the farm have reached the month before harvest without contracts which request for more room for the wheat at the expense of winter malting barley. He mentions that malting barley has no market.