Blog Index
Welcome to our official Farmers Weekly bloggers index page!
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. |
JANE KING'S BLOG Farmers Weekly Group editor Jane King blogs about what we do at Farmers Weekly and why we do it…
Latest from Jane's blog...
- Judge Hilary Benn on actions not words
- Oxford - are you looking to the future with us?
- Kangeroo burgers and burping cows
- Christmas special
- Why are England's farmers second-class citizens?
Latest from Matthew's blog...
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Dreaming of a Giant Bed - Mouth of the Wash
Another thought (which tells you how I have developed a nesting instinct over the holiday) has just occured to me while I was changing the bed linen. I just became trapped inside an inside out duvet cover and spent a few... |
Mortarfied - Mouth of the Wash
Here's some good news for 2009. British scientists at Imperial College have discovered a concrete formulation, based on magnesium silicates, which absorbs CO2 as it hardens. The manufacture of cement currently emits more carbon than the aviation industry. We have laid... |
FIELD DAY
Farm Life editor Tim Relf's quirky take on our weird, wild and wonderful countryside
Latest from Tim's blog...
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Pigs might fly. Or cows, perhaps? (Field Day)
The news has been full of UFO talk in the last day or so, after a giant blade was smashed off a wind turbine in Lincolnshire. The 290ft turbine near Louth had one blade ripped off and another severely damaged. Locals... |
What if he'd got frostbite? (Field Day)
I know we think it's been uncomfortable, what with the cold weather, but it's been nothing compared to what this guy felt, all in the name of medical science. Doctors - and masochists - will probably be able to undertsand why... |
Farmers Weekly columnist David Richardson blogs on rural life in the UK
Latest from David's blog...
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SINGLE FARM PAYMENT RECEIVED (David's Digest)
While I was away at the Oxford Conference this week the postman brought a letter from Defra to say our SFP was about to be paid into the bank. Hooray! We will probably now be able to survive to the end... |
HAPPY DEW YEAR (David's Digest)
I was deterbined, despite the fact that by dose is streabing and by head feels like its going to explode, to wish you the compliments of the season. This virus hit be over the weekend and I have beed suffering ever... |
Farmers Weekly's Jonathan Long blogs on the livestock industry, shows and sales in the UK.
Latest from the blog...
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Closer still to £100 hoggets at Hexham (Taking Stock)
Yet another prime sheep sale has come close to breaching the £100 barrier of old season lambs, with the best at Hexham yesterday making £95. Suffolk crosses from The Whins took the top price of the day, with the 71... |
£100 prime sheep nears reality at Kirkby Stephen (Taking Stock)
The prime sheep trade has really gone into overdrive this week, following on from the £84 trade at St Boswells on Monday and £88 at Skipton on the same day, Tuesday night saw them hit £94.50 at Kirkby Stephen on... |
JULIAN GAIRDNER'S BLOG
FWi's online editor Julian Gairdner blogs about developments on the site.
Latest from Julian's blog...
Simon Robinson's Big Biofuel blog
Comment and feedback in the biofuels arena