Chris Edmunds and Ian Bowness A FIRM of rural surveyors and consultants with a Cumbrian base, has been accepted onto the NFU support panel which offers assistance to its members Davidson & Robertson (D&R) has offices in Scotland and Northern England and will provide rural surveying advice to NFU ‘Farmer & Grower’ members in Cumbria from their Cockermouth office. The NFU CallFirst service enables members to access professional advice on farming, legal and technical issues. D&R is the only firm on the panel with an office base in the county and has a two-year contract to provide the assistance. NFU Cumbria members are offered an initial discussion with firms on the NFU support panel, allowing them to talk to the surveyors about their issues, identifying possible follow up courses of action and if possible, potential costs. That initial discussion can be up to an hour long, and under an NFU agreement, the Surveyors are able to offer new clients a discount on their first instruction.