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Nature Natters: Variety is the spice of life
As always, time is flying by and somehow it’s event season again. This is our chance to study crop variety trials at the various shows and open days, and explore the latest options entering the…
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Nature Natters: A future of haves and have-nots
Defra’s sudden closure of the SFI scheme has divided farmers into two main camps: those who’d entered the schemes and are being rewarded for delivering public goods, and those who hadn’t yet hit ‘apply’.
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Nature Natters: Share with nature, share the responsibility
Many of you will have noticed the increased focus both in policy and in the media on how we use our land and what it can deliver for society. Whether it’s the Land Use Framework…
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Nature Natters: Nature has answers if government provides the budget
It's that time of year when farming businesses are committing new investments and hope into next year's harvest. Rotational plans have been made, inputs been bought and crops have been planted in the hope of…
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Nature Natters: 2050 – A walk around my farm
It’s now 2050 – as I step outside the farmhouse door on a September morning, I think to myself what tremendous changes have taken place.
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Nature Natters: Harvesting new opportunities
It’s been a busy summer of conferences, shows and events across the country and I’ve had conversations with many different farmers. It’s become increasingly obvious that they fall into two distinct camps – those who…
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Nature Natters: Hopes for harvest and beyond
With a changing climate, the unpredictability of our weather has certainly been bad news for food this year and not for the best for farming. Predictions were always that it’d get warmer, but lately we’re…
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Nature Natters: Pastures new
As farmers, the unusual weather and the amount of rain during the past year have had a considerable impact on our work and it’s affected us all. On this occasion, it was our Prime Minister…