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…
Latest from Jane's blog...
- Badger culling and leaked news
- Taking farmer wives seriously
- Serious content versus frothy and fun
- Local food - or is it?
- Come and see us at Cereals
THE LONGER VIEW Farmers Weekly columnist Matthew Naylor blogs from The Fens.
Latest from Matthew's blog...
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Ayrshire takes Great Yorkshire dairy title
Breed development manager and type classifier Myrig Raymond took centre stage to select his interbreed dairy champion this morning and after close inspection he tapped out the Ayrshire cow Sandyford Clover 10 from Blaze and Deborah Tomlinson. Having taken the interbreed... |
Bad Gerdgment
I'm not a qualifield commentator, but I'm pretty well convinced that Hillary Benn has got it wrong with his badger decision. He has been dithering over the issue for so long that I thought it inconceivable that he would not allow some licenced... |
FIELD DAY
Farm Life editor Tim Relf's quirky take on our weird, wild and wonderful countryside
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Sharpen up your skills
It's a shot from the Lancashire Rural Crafts and Scything festival - which is happening this year on July 26-27 at the Turn Village Community Environmental Reserve near Edenfield. |
The FW Awards process (and some of the things I've learnt!)
I've been one of the judges in the 'Young Farmer of the Year' category Farmers Weekly Awards. It's always one of the most hotly contested categories (there are 14 this year) and it's the one I was most hoping I'd... |
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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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THE UNANSWERED QUESTION
Will someone please explain to me how it was that in the 1950's, when the badger population was much lower than it is now - because we hunted them - we were able, using the same tests as today, to eliminate... |
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... |
Farmers Weekly's Jonathan Long and Chrissie Lawrence blog on the livestock industry in the UK.
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Shorthorn bull adds to silverware collection
Adding to his silverware collection obtained yesterday, Mark Holmes' Shorthorn bull Cairnsmore Thrasher has taken the native interbreed competition this morning under Limousin and Charolais breeder Archie McGregor, Kilsyth. Following a close reserve here was the Aberdeen-Angus cow and calf Cragg... |
Ayrshire takes Great Yorkshire dairy title
Breed development manager and type classifier Myrig Raymond took centre stage to select his interbreed dairy champion this morning and after close inspection he tapped out the Ayrshire cow Sandyford Clover 10 from Blaze and Deborah Tomlinson. Having taken the interbreed... |
YEAR OF FOOD AND FARMING
Tony Cooke, programme director of the Year of Food and Farming, blogs on the latest developments
Latest from Tony's blog...
- Trainee Teachers get down on the farm
- Jimmy - A Farming Hero!
- Co-Operative connects with Concrete Kids
- 'Walking the Food Chain' in Cumbria takes off
- Dig for Victory in London
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