11th April 2024
Smith’s Soapbox: Gone completely cuckoo
I’ll admit I’m not a huge believer in old weather sayings. I suspect it’s because as much as I’d treasure an accurate long-term weather forecast, I’ve yet to find one and that, in turn, causes…
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10th March 2024
Smith’s Soapbox: Perversity in places of power
Despite a few uplifting signs of spring such as an increase in birdsong and blossom in the hedgerows, there does seem to be a number of large black clouds threatening this year’s harvest that won’t go…
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12th February 2024
Smith’s Soapbox: No Red Tractor oil on troubled waters
From the perspective of a combinable crops business, a key weakness in Red Tractor assurance would seem to be how little of what leaves my farm ends up with a Red Tractor logo on it.
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4th December 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Wet back-ends – the new norm?
One throw away personal insult I’ve heard batted around the farming scene goes along the lines of ‘if he just stayed in bed all day then he’d be a millionaire.’
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21st August 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Water torture
When, in a wet summer, you’re harvesting crops that suffered from a spring drought, it’s difficult to not think there’s a vindictive weather god in charge, or that you must have done something very wrong in…
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24th July 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Over-twittered harvest yields
As the dust starts to fly and combines get into the thick of harvest 2023, its time for a re-fresher on the rules of Pub yields – now, more modernly, known as the rules of…
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30th June 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Half right, half wrong
When it comes to making decisions, I suffer from the ‘half-right, half wrong’ school of farming. By way of example, last autumn I couldn’t decide whether to spray the rather expensive Luximo (cinmethylin) herbicide or…
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18th May 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Wide-eyed at Wild Isles
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18th April 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: The milling wheat casino
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13th March 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Regime change
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13th February 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Would you credit it?