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• 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 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]

• Reports of a tiff are greatly exaggerated

  Mark Twain, in the title there. Not sure it worked, but it’s made me feel a bit cultured. Poor old Andrew George though, eh? And I’m not just pitying him for this terrible photo we keep wheeling out on FWi: Having spent years helping the NFU... Posted Sep 27 2010, 08:17 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, farming, Politics, badgers, tb, Lib Dems, coalition, DEFRA, Caroline Spelman, andrew george, Conservative, coalition agreement, policy [Edit Tags]

• Trouble already in DEFRA’s paradise…

  Oh dear, things aren’t looking so good for DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman – and she hasn’t even been in the job a week. There were rumblings of discontent at the weekend over possible conflicts of interest between Cazza’s new... Posted May 18 2010, 11:36 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Politics, Food, Government, RPA, Rural Payments Agency, DEFRA, Caroline Spelman, Accenture [Edit Tags]