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Farming at its finest!

We praise our industry for all the good things it does - i.e. provide food for everyone (what 65 million in britian??) but i tell you what - as far as dryer designing goes, were crap! Today, i had a few bits to do, shift some grain etc, nothing hard, just drive the JCB and shift a few tons from shed...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Tue, Jun 24 2008
Getting Into Farming !- HOW!

Hi all, I'm 15, 16 this summer and im really into agriculture. My grandad used to be a dairy/beef/arable farmer but retired 9 years ago so i have no business to step into. I leave school this year but whats the best way to get into agriculture- without being a farm labourer working for a low wage...

Posted to The Next Generation (Forum) by balertwine92 on Tue, May 13 2008
Turksish delights and a bit of PR

Well, I complained about the wheather and through the powers of FWI space, and as a result - its been bloomin' great! I took the dog out and i was sweating!!!! On the farm on saturday, we had fencing to do as i mentioned, this went pretty smoothly (despite waking up on sunday feeling like an arthritic...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Tue, May 6 2008
Re: Possible changes to HLS and ELS

Hi there, Sorry if this is in wrong place (Im new to this) and I wanted to make sure its on any parts of this website which are to do with this and as this section is about changes to ELS/HLS I thought this would be the best place to put it. I am a student studying Environmental science at university...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by student@mmu on Fri, Mar 28 2008
Dreaming of a white.....easter??

Hey! Happy Easter to you's all. Hope you aint ate too many easter eggs, i have tried not to, but failed! Being up the far North of England, we have had a big down fall of snow. I left home on Friday morning with grandad, sun was out, a bit of cloud and the temperature was about 2 degrees and the...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Mon, Mar 24 2008
Education

Today, i read two articles with interest. The first being the bloke at sainsburys getting arrested. The 2nd, i was far more interested in. It was Tony Cookes blog post. He said in the post - 5,000 schools sign up in 4 days! To be quite honest, i can believe this! The project what Mr Cooke is doing is...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Mon, Mar 17 2008
Silaging

A mate silaging on her dairy farm!

Posted to Matty S's Gallery (Gallery) by matty s on Thu, Mar 13 2008
Motivation and the future generations.

One of the many things I always here about is motivation! I see on the forum people on about the next generation and family farms. But at the end of the day, where are you in agriculture without a family farm? POSSIBLY a contractor? May be a smallholder? Working for DEFRA or the NFU or a manager of a...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Wed, Feb 20 2008
Re: OFC views

Hi TeslaCoils Great to meet you and the other Debate ticket winners at the OFC. As a new director of the OFC, I suppose I'm biased but I thought it was another excellent event. The best thing about it was the large number of younger farmers present this year. It was lively, thought provoking and...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Jane King on Thu, Jan 10 2008
Re: Why she loves Tesco

It was the Guardian that printed the Julie Burchill piece so I thought this was the best place to highlight today's comment piece. It's not perfect, but it is supportive of farmers and the arguments being made by the industry about food policy. I quote: "Government policy envisages farmers...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Isabel Davies on Sat, Jan 5 2008

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