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February 2011 - Posts

• A possible hairy situation for the NFU

  Dear oh dear. I can’t image the NFU team are a bunch of happy bunnies at the moment. Having given DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman a telling off this week for not taking farming seriously enough, this morning it’s emerged government plans for a badger... Posted Feb 18 2011, 08:33 PM by NufSaid Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Agriculture, farming, NFU, Gwyn Jones, Peter Kendall, Politics, Food, badger cull, badgers, DEFRA, Caroline Spelman, ag, bovine TB, National Farmers Uniona [Edit Tags]

• The day I met a proper journalist

  Had I not chosen a career path which had taken me down a bizarre route into a niche avenue of journalism, I would have like to have become a proper writer on a national newspaper. Like John Pilger, perhaps. Or Jay Rayner. Y’know, Jay Rayner. The... Posted Feb 16 2011, 08:48 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Organic, farming, Celebrities, Food, Television, journalism, TV, Jay Rayner, knorr, marco pierre white [Edit Tags]

• The DEFRA love-in turns sour

  After the glamour of the Soil Association conference in Manchester last week, this week I’m at the NEC in Birmingham for the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting. With no general election on the immediate horizon, union president Peter... Posted Feb 15 2011, 06:24 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, farming, NFU, Peter Kendall, nfu conference, Politics, farm, Food, Government, food production, DEFRA, Caroline Spelman, ag, Food 2030, Hilary Benn [Edit Tags]

• Chewy and viscous

  I promise to blog about the Soil Association conference properly at some point (I’ll be putting my ranting hat on – be warned), but in the meantime I thought I’d share this with you. One of the rather nice perks of going to the SA conference... Posted Feb 14 2011, 05:55 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Soil Association, Organic, Food, chocolate, green and blacks, baking, cakes, recipe [Edit Tags]

• Orange you glad I’m the one covering this conference….

  I’ve come up to Manchester for the Soil Association’s annual conference. I thought, having spent the last few months in hot countries, that I have a decent sun-tan compared to most people. I hadn’t counted on some of the lovely ladies... Posted Feb 08 2011, 04:27 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Soil Association, Weird, fake tan, Manchester, tan, orange [Edit Tags]

• “It’s starting to blow a bit”

  If I was living in Queensland I’d be starting to wonder who I’d annoyed. After much of the southern part of the state was declared a disaster zone earlier last month thanks to some of the worst flooding ever seen, northern Queensland is now... Posted Feb 02 2011, 08:39 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Travel, Food, Australia, weather, Marty, bananas, barramundi, Queensland, Flooding, Innisfail, Cyclone Yasi, Anna Bligh [Edit Tags]

• Settling back in

  I’ve avoided blogging for a week or so, partly to give you a rest and partly because I didn’t trust myself not to just whinge about the fact that England is BLOODY FREEZING. In just 24 hours on a plane I lost 35 degrees. Seriously, I don’t... Posted Feb 01 2011, 04:02 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, London, farming, Travel, Australia, CAP, sun, FW, spring, weather, hobbit, shoes, iced coffee, cold [Edit Tags]