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Isn’t the EU and CAP just a way to rob Peter to pay Paul, leaving the UK billions poorer so we can have a badge saying we’re in the gang? Sorry but I was looking up a statistic regarding the common agricultural policy and came across an article about the UK and EU and felt [...]
Having just returned from a week with food poisoning I was so saddened to be informed of yet another tragic fatal accident in the farming community. A father of three was killed on his farm while fixing his Kramer loader. My deepest sympathies go to his wife and young children. There are two tragedies here, [...]
What does the new strain of pig flu mean for the world farming community. Will pig flue blow itself out or is this new strain of flu virus going to be the one which results in a pandemic? I’m not one for scaremongering usually but I am worried about the speed this is travelling and [...]
The media reaction to the 2009 Organic Market Report by the Soil Association, which was released yesterday, has been quite dramatic. I read the report and felt quietly confident that the UK’s organic food market would survive the recession and yet the first headline to hit the internet, 15 hours ago as I type, was [...]
I would really like to thank a reader of this blog for her recent comments on the post about the Welsh badger cull to stem the spread of bTB in Wales which was recently announced. It is difficult to sum up this blog or why I do it but these comments have given me the [...]