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Prince Charles promotes world hunger?

I've just been sent this on email. Interesting reponse to Charles' pesticides/ GM bashing: August 19, 2008 PRINCE CHARLES PROMOTES WORLD HUNGER BY: Dennis T. and Alex A. Avery, Hudson Institute CHURCHVILLE , VA—Prince Charles of England has come out again against the genetically modified foods...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Julian Gairdner on Wed, Aug 20 2008
Re: Youtube - Pig videos

Youtube has become a great source of farming videos but the pearls are not easy to find amongst quite a lot of rubbish. A range of useful pig farming videos are now featured each month on the home page of www.pighealth.com Also some film clips on... ORGANIC FARMING & ORGANIC FOOD QUALITY : www.pighealth...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by HolisticHealth on Tue, Aug 12 2008
Re: Wheat varieties for organic farming

Hi Al Kid, If you haven't already converted (or even if you have) you might care to take a peek at the clip here: http://www.fwi.co.uk/community/forums/organic-versus-conventional-18208.aspx

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by flutefriend on Tue, Jul 22 2008
Organic versus conventional

I've been sitting on this clip for a few days, but I can assure you that the fields look much the same now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjlZFb58ZdA So which method should growers be using to try to feed an increasingly hungry world?

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by flutefriend on Wed, Jul 16 2008
Dealing with walkers.

Well, today was my first encounter by myself with the public on the land. I am quite confident with talking to people i dont know and when i pointed out a load of orange jacketed, zippy gaiter walkers out to my boss he just said keep an eye out while he went out. So, while busy, working away i noticed...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sat, Apr 26 2008
"Organic rules force up seed prices," claims James Wallace of seed merchant JE & VM Dalton.

Organic seed supply rules are no doubt set to encourage the growing of organic crops and to protect the suppliers of organic seed. However, by the way they are operated by the Soil Association and other organic certifying bodies they force many organic growers to pay an unnecessary premium for the seed...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by flutefriend on Tue, Apr 8 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
Help needed on farmers views towards agri-environmental schemes

Hi there, I am a student studying Environmental science at university and am in serious need of a bit more data for a project I am doing for ECM. If any of you have a couple of minutes (if that) could you please fill in the answers to the following questions (very small questionnaire)? 1. What size is...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by student@mmu on Fri, Mar 28 2008
Help needed on farmers views towards agri-environmental schemes

Hi there, I am a student studying Environmental science at university and am in serious need of a bit more data for a project I am doing for ECM. If any of you have a couple of minutes (if that) could you please fill in the answers to the following questions (very small questionnaire)? 1. What size is...

Posted to Crop comments (Forum) by student@mmu on Fri, Mar 28 2008
Horizon: Organic v conventional

Tonight's Horizon programme on BBC 2 could be worth a viewing. Called Professor Regan's Supermarket Secrets , obstetrician Prof Lesley Regan asks whether the food industry's claims about certain "superfoods" really stand up to close scrutiny. As the programme makers say: "Friendly...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by phil clarke on Tue, Feb 26 2008

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