28th July 2025
Last Word: Farming forgiveness
Something I was exposed to very early on in life was how to bear an effective grudge, and while I loved him dearly, this was an attribute my grandad John was most skilled at.
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28th July 2025
Nature Natters: Beat the heat
It’s been the sunniest, warmest and driest first half of the year on record, and like many around my way in Cambridgeshire, we’ve harvested our crops around 2-3 weeks earlier than in a ‘normal’ year…
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28th July 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: Timeless charm of the tented field
One suspects crowds of folk have been occasionally gathering in farmed fields for as long as there have been farmed fields. In times past, the causes of such al fresco occasions could be manifold – from…
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28th July 2025
Talking Taties: Ever optimistic
Is it going to be a back end of sheeting trailers and dragging tow straps around? Who knows; Mother Mature tends to pay her debts at some time or other.
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27th June 2025
Talking Taties: Chalk and cheese
Contrasting years don’t vary much more than 2024 and 2025. We finished planting this year’s crop more than a month earlier than last year and are currently at a point where all pre emergence herbicides are…
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27th June 2025
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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26th June 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: Seedy speed dating
Visiting Cereals 2025 in Lincolnshire found me in a nostalgic mood – it’s a sobering thought that in 2029 the event will be fifty years old. That’s presuming its appearance on Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm…
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26th June 2025
Last Word: Love thy nature
There’s no beating around the ethical bush this month – how people treat animals says a lot about who they are as an individual, don’t you think?
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21st May 2025
Nature Natters: Crops – whatever the weather
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21st May 2025
Talking Taties: Down memory lane
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21st May 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: Owls of delight