Blog Index
Welcome to our official Farmers Weekly bloggers index page!
What is a blog?
'Blog' is short for web log - a website (or area of a website) where entries are written in chronological order by the site 'owner' (blogger) and where YOU can comment on what they're saying.
Below is the list of FWi's official bloggers including their latest two posts. Click on the blue headlines if you want to read on or comment:
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Users of this site can also have their own blogs on our farming community area FWiSpace. Take a look and if you would like a blog of your own, email Farmers Weekly community editor Isabel Davies |
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JANE KING'S BLOG Farmers Weekly Group editor Jane King blogs about what we do at Farmers Weekly and why we do it…
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THE LONGER VIEW Farmers Weekly columnist Matthew Naylor blogs from The Fens.
Latest from Matthew's blog...
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The Remarkable Oliver Walston
We keep getting showers here. Part of the daffodil grading line is outdoors so each time there is a shower, we draw a sheet over the bulbs and run for cover - me to my office and the grading team... |
Twizzles from Turkey or Swizzles from Italy
Whoops. Lord Jamie Oliver has launched a pasta sauce which is very high in salt. One jar contains nearly five times more than the recommended daily allowance of salt for a child. I shouldn't, what with him being a saint and all, but... |
FIELD DAY
Farm Life editor Tim Relf's quirky take on our weird, wild and wonderful countryside
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Emmerdale star Clive Hornby dies
This is sad news - Clive Hornby, who plays Jack Sugden on Emmerdale, has died. I only met him once when I interviewed him for an article but immediately warmed to him. ... |
Airlifted animal
Another amazing rescue story - this time a bullock from the bottom of a cliff. They could have saved themselves the trouble and barbecued it on the beach!... |
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Open Farm Sunday draws the crowds
The third Open Farm Sunday seems to have gone well. Over 400 farms opened their gates to the public on 1 June and although no one is quite sure of visitor numbers - early indications are that it was bigger and better... |
Should Scotland go GM-free?
Should Scotland go GM-free is the big question discussed by Scotland Environment Minister Mike Russell and NFU Scotland president Jim McLaren in this podcast presented by Farmers Weekly's Scotland correspondent Nancy Nicolson: Click here to get your own player.... |
Farmers Weekly columnist David Richardson blogs on rural life in the UK
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NATURAL ENGLAND EXPOSES ITS IGNORANCE YET AGAIN
When our Countryside Stewardship Scheme ended after ten years we transferred to the Environmental Stewardship Scheme that succeded it. It's almost the same as the Higher Level Scheme and pays out a similar amount. In any case, you can't participate in ES... |
FOOD TOP OF FRENCH PRESIDENCY'S EU AGENDA
As France takes over the Presidency of the EU today with the objective of persuading member states to ratify the Lisbon Treaty following the Irish rejection of it, as well as dealing with a bunch of other equally hot issues, not least among... |
Farmers Weekly's Jonathan Long and Chrissie Lawrence blog on the livestock industry in the UK.
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YEAR OF FOOD AND FARMING
Tony Cooke, programme director of the Year of Food and Farming, blogs on the latest developments
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Kids connect
Set up in conjunction with our Kids Connect campaign launched on 2 July 2007. you can read regular updates from our four young bloggers on why they love living in the countryside.
Simon Robinson's Big Biofuel blog
Comment and feedback in the biofuels arena