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 Nature 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
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20th May 2025
Last Word: The age of contentment
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25th April 2025
Smith’s Soapbox: United we stand
As I write, there’s chat on social media about arable farmers refusing to load out milling wheat in April as some sort of protest. I’m not sure if it’s an April Fool, but nonetheless it…
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23rd April 2025
Last Word: Blissful ignorance, 95% of the time
I don’t usually profess to have an opinion regarding political issues, but the government’s recent announcement – well, blog – regarding SFI has caused even me to shift in my seat.