Earlier this year I took part in a focus group with Andersons farm business consultants, as part of their research into a study they were doing for DEFRA.
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Collaboration – it’s a way of life
When you attend a conference organised by English Farming and Food Partnerships, you expect to hear a lot about collaboration.
Organic food – shunned or supported?
It always amazes me how two different journals can run the same story with such different interpretations.
Rural businesses poised for economic recovery?
Every cloud has a silver lining – even if it’s a very dark cloud, full of water and preceded by an unseasonably chilly wind.
No time for complacency
We seem to have had a run of surveys over the past couple of weeks. The latest comes from our friends at the NFU who have found that one in four farmers feel the credit crunch will significantly affect their business
The Economist takes an upbeat view of farming
It’s not often one finds anything positive about farming in The Economist magazine – normally its editorial is reserved for slagging off any kind of market intervention, especially when it involves paying “immoral subsidies” to “feather bedded farmers”.
Question marks over economic recovery
This week’s “Prospects” report from the EU Commission has a familiar twang to it:
Agriculture to lead the UK out of recession?
Listening to the keynote speeches at this morning’s session of the NFU’s annual conference in Birmingham, it was easy to believe that farming is immune from the recession.
BBC Politics Show looks at farming in the recession
The fortunes of farming during a recession got a decent airing on yesterday’s Politics Show, on BBC1 in the South East.