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...
THE LONGER VIEW Farmers Weekly columnist Matthew Naylor blogs from The Fens.
Latest from Matthew's blog...
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Potential Cat Tash Trophy
Ow. That punny title has a pain factor of 90%. Right, straight down to business. Look That, my feathered friends, is a picture from Tim Relf's blog, Field Day. It's nuts, the cat I mean. It's Nuts the cat. I... |
Bazadaise dispersal at Newark hits £2600
Exceeding all expected proceedings is how Newark Livestock Market auctioneer Paul Gentry described last weekend’s dispersal of pedigree and commercial Bazadaise cows and calves. Topping the dispersal from Richard and Julie Chantler was a March 2004 born cow with her... |
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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'Fat lady' goes medieval
I missed this programme with Clarissa Dickson Wright earlier this week. Anyone see it?... |
I'll phone ewe
I simply love the photo of the sheep at the bottom of the post on the Getting Stiched on the Farm blog in America. Strangely real-looking!... |
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It has been too long...
It's been a bit quiet on here during the past week and the blame lies with a bunch of Young Farmers. In a positive way, of course. It is just I have been tied up at the agm in Blackpool... |
Farming on TV ...yet again
Farming makes another of its appearances on TV tonight and the signs are that it won't be pretty. Our Daily Breads screens on More 4 at 10pm and looks at modern agricultural practices across Europe. There's already been some discussion... |
Farmers Weekly columnist David Richardson blogs on rural life in the UK
Latest from David's blog...
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ALL CHANGE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
I can't remember a year when Spring has sprung as fast and dramatically as it has this time. The cool damp weather clearly held everything back but as soon as we had a few warm days (and nights) crops (and... |
OPEN FARM SUNDAY LEADS TO CROPS BEING PLESSED
I shall be on my way back from a study tour of the American mid west on June 1st so will not be able to participate in the LEAF inspired Open Farm Sunday on June 1st. But we did open... |
Farmers Weekly's Jonathan Long and Chrissie Lawrence blog on the livestock industry in the UK.
Latest from the blog...
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Gearing up for a hectic show season
Well, summer it seems has arrived and with it comes the start of the main summer show season. Kicking off with Newark this weekend, the Taking Stock team will be travelling the length and breadth of the country to report... |
Limousin champ sells for 2900gns at Skipton
Lancashire Limousin cattle breeder Paul Fletcher secured the Limousin championship honours at Skipton yesterday with his home-bred March, 2006, bull Siddall Barney, by the Neuphar son Sarkley Viking, out of Siddall Tanya, who is herself a product of Paul’s main... |
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