Spalding's Butter Market
Down the side of Spalding's Civic Centre is a passageway called The Butter Market. Here is some of the history and the context in a...
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- Jul 28
- 4 min
Farming for the Good Years.
I recently read a tweet that expressed the fear that every farmer feels this time of year: " Just totted up what we've spent on the...
- Jun 28
- 5 min
Overdraft Charges
Farming businesses have seen considerable rises in working capital requirements that is, the amount of cash required to see your...
- May 20
- 2 min
Wax On Wax Off
2023 saw me living in Amble Northumberland for the first time having moved from my native Lincolnshire. In February I started to work...
- Feb 15
- 4 min
REPOSSESSION - What to expect if your farmhouse is to be repossessed.
The nature of farming is that often the Bank has a charge over a farmer’s home to support the business borrowing. This charge may be part...
- Feb 15
- 2 min
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...
- Aug 24, 2022
- 4 min
Profits Warning for your Holiday Stay
Farmers are consistently being told to diversify their businesses and one of the most common forms of diversification is the rural...
- Jul 16, 2022
- 4 min
THE DUTCH FARMER PROTEST – WINNERS AND LOSERS
The “Dutch N” case and the “Urgenda” case are compelling the Dutch government to seek massive reductions of greenhouse gases by 2040 and...
- Jul 14, 2022
- 8 min
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...
- Jun 13, 2022
- 5 min
Inertia of Farming
Beware the inertia of farming. It is perhaps the most commercially and emotionally hazardous factor of farming. It is the tendancy to...
- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
The British Countryside - Managed by Man
I cannot help but feel as I wander through the British countryside that its nature is as God intended......managed by man. The last week...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
What Bank Manager?
In July 2021 I posted a detailed description on how a Bank manager views a farm for lending risk purposes. The advice in it still holds...
- Mar 11, 2022
- 3 min
KEEP YOUR BLOODY DOG ON A LEAD!
In my third post looking at problems farmers have with dogs and people I look at livestock worrying. This is intended to be a view of the...
- Mar 9, 2022
- 7 min
Principles of Self Defence
This is the second of three posts where I look at problems farmers have with dogs and people. The first post looked at Coursing and some...
- Mar 5, 2022
- 10 min
Coursing and Poaching – a problem old and new.
In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
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...
- Jan 8, 2022
- 2 min
Succession - The Need to Talk and Listen
Once upon a time there were two brothers, very healthy and in their late sixties, one had no children, the other had a son who was in the...
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
A PROJECT FOR THE UNIVERSAL BENEFIT OF ALL FARMERS
First of all I thank my great Irish friend Jonathan Swift for his inspiration. Having done so much to serve and instruct the agricultural...
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
ALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US part 6
PLANNING CHANGE Assess your farming businesses and its strengths and weaknesses. Keep it simple. Write them down. Understand what your...
- Sep 25, 2021
- 2 min
ALL CHANGE FOR FARMING AND THE REST OF US part 5
UNDERSTANDING CHANGE All farmers should start with themselves. Consider and write down any changes you would like. Then consider and...
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