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Jul 14, 20228 minCommentNETHERLANDS FARMER’S PROTEST - NEDERLANDS BOERENPROTEST“Twice as much food using half as many resources” was the ambitious aim of Dutch Agriculture. Indeed, you can see it being achieved and...
Jan 13, 20222 minCommentTo Plough the Headland and be DamnedToday I read a tweet from a farmer on the Lincolnshire Wolds showing his uncultivated field margin with the words, "Great over winter...
Nov 7, 20214 minCommentWHAT ABOUT A SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE COUNTRYSIDE?I am becoming very tired of all the people shouting about farming having to be sustainable and the countryside having to be managed...
Sep 24, 20214 minUseful InfoALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US part 4HOW DO YOU VIEW OR UNDERSTAND CHANGE? In my opinion the largest change that UK farming is encountering is the political and environmental...
Sep 21, 20214 minUseful InfoALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US PART 1AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - COAL, OIL AND GAS Our civilization is founded on coal, oil and gas more completely than one realises until one...
Jul 9, 20219 minCommentIs the late Sir Richard Body the architect of current Conservative Agricultural policy in the UK?As a teenager going to Spalding Grammar School I would often see our member of Parliament Richard Body walking near his house in Welland...