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.’
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21st August 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Water torture
When, in a wet summer, you’re harvesting crops that suffered from a spring drought, it’s difficult to not think there’s a vindictive weather god in charge, or that you must have done something very wrong in…
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24th July 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Over-twittered harvest yields
As the dust starts to fly and combines get into the thick of harvest 2023, its time for a re-fresher on the rules of Pub yields – now, more modernly, known as the rules of…
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30th June 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Half right, half wrong
When it comes to making decisions, I suffer from the ‘half-right, half wrong’ school of farming. By way of example, last autumn I couldn’t decide whether to spray the rather expensive Luximo (cinmethylin) herbicide or…
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18th May 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Wide-eyed at Wild Isles
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18th April 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: The milling wheat casino
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13th March 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Regime change
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13th February 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Would you credit it?
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8th December 2022
Smith’s Soapbox: The drudgery and disaster of olde farming ways
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17th October 2022
Smith’s Soapbox: Of mice and men
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19th July 2022
Smith’s Soapbox: Harvest schadenfreude – home and abroad