24th June 2026
Nature Natters: Seeds of change
The old saying ‘time goes quicker as you get older’ certainly feels true this year, especially as most of our crops are roughly three weeks ahead of normal. The impact of this year’s weather on…
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24th May 2026
Nature Natters: Trials and tribulations
Is arable farming facing a perfect storm? With low commodity prices, high energy, fertiliser and fuel costs on top of ever-increasing machinery costs, surely every farmer is questioning the current system.
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23rd April 2026
Nature Natters: Spring into action
Just as spring comes along and work starts in earnest, another global event challenges farming. As war spills over into more countries, key trade routes are being held to ransom and our input costs have…
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20th March 2026
Nature Natters: Using our senses
In last month’s issue, editor Janine Adamson in her Last Word talked about the move towards digitisation, rather than reading a physical copy of this magazine.
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12th February 2026
Nature Natters: Risk and reward
When we look at European crop trials and recommendations over the past 20 or more years, they’ve focused more on resilience to diseases and low-input systems, not just yield.
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12th December 2025
Nature Natters: Planning for change in 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, it’s a time for reflection on what’s undeniably been a challenging year. Whether it’s the weather impacts, low commodity prices, or government policy changes, it’s been one heck of…
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21st October 2025
Nature Natters: The future is diversity
I’m writing this during the party conference season, during which I’ll get the opportunity to attend a range of events for many different political parties. And in all of them, I’ll be putting forward discussion…
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26th September 2025
Nature Natters: What next for nature?
We seem to find ourselves in a two-tiered farming system. We have those that are in Countryside Stewardship alongside those in an overgenerous Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI ) scheme, receiving public money to deliver public…
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27th August 2025
Nature Natters: To plough or not to plough?
As harvests have progressed and fields have cleared, we begin to refocus on what to do with our soil to prepare for the next crop. Post-harvest soil condition varies tremendously each year depending on what…
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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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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…
