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• A-maize-ing

  Today, I discovered that I like flying in helicopters over farmland. Sometimes my job’s pretty good. Read More... Posted Jun 13 2011, 09:51 PM by NufSaid Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Agriculture, farm, ag, maize maze, farmland, maize, helicopter [Edit Tags]

• The mega WI

  “You youngsters like things big,” the old dear in the back of the taxi said to me yesterday morning, sucking in her cheeks. “We prefer small things – small businesses, small farms. “Whole villages will be ripped up to make... Posted Jun 09 2011, 09:17 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, farm, Food, ag, WI, mega farm, factory farm, womens institute, large-scale farming [Edit Tags]

• Doing porridge for a farm photo

  When I was on holiday in Florida a couple of years ago, I managed to convince my friends to pull our hire car over so I could stop off to take some photos of an orange grove. Not being farmer-types, they had a bit of a whinge about the delay. They couldn’t... Posted Mar 09 2011, 04:43 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Weird, America, United States, Politics, farm, Food, ag, photography, law, Florida, farm access, photos, prison [Edit Tags]

• 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 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 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]

• Itching to buy something

  Why do itches always materialise at the most inopportune moments? Say, for example, you’re at an annual Black Friday Aberdeen Angus sale. All around you are stetson-wearing farmers tugging at their ears or tapping their noses as a sign that they... Posted Dec 05 2010, 03:08 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, farm, Australia, cattle, ag, aberdeen angus, cattle sale, auction, cattle auction, Brad [Edit Tags]

• Radio baa baa

  Back home whenever BBC reporter Robert Peston comes on the radio I have to switch him straight off. I’ve always thought he was putting on a ridiculous voice as there was no way anyone could really speak with such a daft tone or drawl, or without... Posted Dec 03 2010, 03:11 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, radio, BBC, Communication, farming, Australia, sheep, interview, ag, annoying voice, ABC, sheep sale, Robert Peston [Edit Tags]

• “You’d have to be an idiot not to be able to follow this map.”

  Luckily, Albury is lovely this time of year. I’ve left Dave, Heidi and Isaac’s and headed south-west (after a slight detour and a planned visit to a former gold-mining town now famed for its wine) to Barooga to visit another Nuffield chum... Posted Dec 03 2010, 02:19 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, farm, Food, Australia, ag, australian agriculture, tomatoes, Brad, salination, irrigation, Barooga [Edit Tags]

• Tomato source

  Contrary to what my last two posts might suggest, I did actually come to Bundaberg for a vaguely agricultural reason (you believe me, don’t you?) Bundy is home to Camilla Philip, a 2006 Nuffield Scholar who, along with her husband Andrew, are the... Posted Nov 15 2010, 11:55 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Food, Australia, ag, australian agriculture, tomatoes, Camilla Philip, SP Exports, tomato [Edit Tags]

• Farewell to the tropics

  After a fantastic week in Innisfail I’m saying goodbye to Marty and my adopted family, Linda, Harvey and Emma. They’ve been fantastic hosts and I’m going to miss them all very much. I hope they’ll consider taking-on the ice and... Posted Nov 09 2010, 12:47 PM by NufSaid Filed under: farming, fish, Travel, farm, Australia, ag, barramundi, shag, prawns [Edit Tags]

• The whole milk truth

  Can you believe it? Marty took me to a dairy today. He’ll try and deny it, but it was a bit embarrassing how excited he was about the visit. ‘Let me see a few cows,’ he pleaded with Emma and me. ‘I miss the smell of the silage... Posted Nov 07 2010, 01:18 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Travel, farm, dairy, Food, Australia, ag, Marty, australian agriculture, Queensland, Atherton Tablelands, Gallo Dairyland, dairy farming [Edit Tags]

• Goin’ bananas

  If there’s one thing I’ve learnt on my travels, it’s that farmers in the UK share pretty much the same problems as every other farmer in the world. Supply and demand, retailer power, pricing, red tape and high input costs are affecting... Posted Nov 05 2010, 11:51 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Travel, farm, Food, Australia, ag, australian agriculture, banana, bananas [Edit Tags]

• Farm pests, Aussie style.

  Think you’ve got it tough with badgers, pigeons and rabbits on your farm? Well spare a thought for my baramundi-farming friend Marty, who has to contend with these: This ‘little’ fella is a couple of metres long, and was just chillin’... Posted Nov 05 2010, 04:55 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, fish, Weird, farm, Australia, ag, crocodiles, fishing, Crocodile, australian agriculture [Edit Tags]

• Chasing developments in animal genetics

  Apologies for ruining Mr Geography’s pen pal dreams, but I didn’t come back from the sticks married to an emu farmer. I did, however, learn some interesting facts about Rod Hull’s special friends: 1. They are growing in popularity in... Posted Oct 23 2010, 05:54 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, United States, farm, Food, Australia, India, Europe, cattle, ag, agricultural science, genetics, goats, Indian agriculture, emu [Edit Tags]

• Using larvae to help India’s farmers

  Have you missed me? I’ve been out at the sticks checking out farms and they don’t tend to have much tinterweb access there. Or electricity, for that matter… I know I’m pretty lucky to be seeing parts of India that your general... Posted Oct 23 2010, 01:41 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Travel, farm, Food, Government, India, ag, Indian agriculture, carming, sericulture, silk, silkwork [Edit Tags]

• Farming science, a flight and a freak-out

  So had I a bit of a wobble yesterday. The stress of nearly being kidnapped, coupled with a hair-raising five-hour drive from Hisar back to Delhi so I could catch a flight to Mumbai (or Bombay, if you insist on being colonial) got to me. It’s a tad... Posted Oct 20 2010, 01:38 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Travel, Government, India, ag, research, agricultural science, mumbai, bombay, Indian agriculture, Haryana university, Hisar [Edit Tags]

• The wall of terror

  Of all the things to be confronted by when you arrive at the NEC in Birmingham at 7.30 am, a giant wall emblazoned with your ugly mug isn’t really what you want to see. Just look what the Farmers Weekly stand at the Dairy Event and Livestock Show... Posted Sep 07 2010, 01:07 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, farming, farm, ag, dairy event and livestock show, dairy event [Edit Tags]

• Meat, milk and beer – the perfect way to spend a day

  Having seen some great farms together in the United States, the UK Nuffield 2010 Crew decided to keep things a bit closer to home yesterday with a trip to Staffordshire. While a few of us were missing (bad luck to Princess and Peckie for the annoyingly... Posted Sep 04 2010, 04:47 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Nuffield, Food, ag, freedom brewery, staffordshire, rupert major, chickens, mercer farming, pigs, medium rare [Edit Tags]

• Agricultural speed-dating

  No ice cream, but beer and chocolate cake (by a tortoise-shaped lamp) – a much better way to get my strength back. I’ve had a pretty exhausting day of meetings with various media types and professors from the University of Guelph. Guelph is... Posted Jul 14 2010, 01:05 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Nuffield, Travel, GM, Food, ag, science, Canada, University of Guelph, Guelph, plant genetics, agricultural science, genetics, genitic modification [Edit Tags]

• Backing farming’s boffins

  I wrote a few articles last year about agricultural research in the UK. I was looking at funding sources, the decline in spend on R&D and the kinds of things research institutes in Britain are looking at. As I’m sure you’ve already guessed... Posted Jun 12 2010, 07:55 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, Politics, Food, Government, ag, Rothamsted Research, science, funding [Edit Tags]

• Being Wurzelised

  I have to admit, I was a little sad this week when U2 pulled out of Glastonbury cos Bono’s back’s giving him gyp. Like Jet, Bono, Th’Edge and the gang are a guilty musical pleasure of mine, and I was disappointed I wouldn’t get... Posted May 27 2010, 05:50 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Celebrities, Glastonbury, Music, festival, Wurzels, U2, ag, Bono [Edit Tags]