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Lack of Incentive? Or Lack of Trust?

Single Farm Payment saw an average cut of 22% for farmers last year with the money supposedly diverted to the Sustainable Farm Incentive...

NETHERLANDS 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...

To Plough the Headland and be Damned

Today I read a tweet from a farmer on the Lincolnshire Wolds showing his uncultivated field margin with the words, "Great over winter...

WHAT 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...

ALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US part 4

HOW DO YOU VIEW OR UNDERSTAND CHANGE? In my opinion the largest change that UK farming is encountering is the political and environmental...

ALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US PART 1

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - COAL, OIL AND GAS Our civilization is founded on coal, oil and gas more completely than one realises until one...

Is 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...

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