10th March 2024
Last Word: Networking – unspoken torture
Now, what I’m about to discuss could be viewed as contradictory to my previous column which explored overcoming loneliness. But never mind, I’ll press on.
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10th March 2024
Nature Natters: No Nature, No Farmers, No Food
During the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time on trains travelling to different parts of the country for meetings and conferences. While it's nice to sit back, relax, and let the train…
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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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10th March 2024
Talking Taties: Knowledge is power
Unsurprisingly, I have no field work activities to report this month – the nearest we’ve been is making a muck heap in one of our driest undrained fields three times bigger than is required for…
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12th February 2024
Talking Taties: What a winter, eh?
It seems a long time since the excellent BP2023 show at Harrogate in November and similarly superb CUPGRA conference in December.
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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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12th February 2024
Nature Natters: Inputs and outputs – the future of fossil fuel-based fertilisers
Like many, we’re coming out of winter with the already-planted crops in a very mixed condition – we don't have a single field with uniform establishment or condition of crops. The recent weather has certainly…
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12th February 2024
Last Word: No (wo)man is an island
You can be in a room full of people yet feel completely alone. It’s true, isn’t it? Loneliness comes in many shapes and sizes. Equally, here we find ourselves, in an industry which by its…
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4th December 2023
Nature Natters: Farm assurance schemes – who and what are they really for?
Is it for adding value to farmers and others in the supply chain? Or is it for standing out in the crowd and demonstrating different forms of production?
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4th December 2023
Talking Taties: It will dry up, it always does… eventually!
The answer to the question no doubt in most taty growers minds is 2.6% (4acres) That’s what we have left to lift. There are two varieties, in three wet bits, and as things stand at…
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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.’