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• 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 Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, farm, Food, ag, WI, mega farm, factory farm, womens institute, large-scale farming [Edit Tags]

• An attempt at resuming normal service

  Avid fans will notice I’ve haven’t been hangin’ around here much lately. I’ve been lacking a bit in the creative-writing inspiration front so I thought it was best to steer clear until my writer’s block disappeared. I’ve... Posted Jun 08 2011, 09:00 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Communication, Nuffield, report, writing, blog [Edit Tags]

• Naked ambition

  I have an confession to make. If you were at the Farmers Club lunch in London yesterday listening to me speak, in my head you were starkers. Yep, that’s right – completely nakey. Even the tablecloth didn’t spare your blushes. Imagining... Posted Apr 05 2011, 01:25 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, Communication, London, farming, Nuffield, Farmers Club, emu, public speaking, naked [Edit Tags]

• The language of the CAP

  I can’t remember any German when I need it, but every time I come to French-speaking Brussels it seems to be the only language that leaves my mouth. Having got off the Eurostar I couldn’t even seem to remember how to ask where the taxi rank was in English... Posted Mar 28 2011, 09:21 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, NFU, Government, CAP, Europe, German, dacian ciolos, Brussels, french, language, common agricultural policy [Edit Tags]

• Aussie Tweet-up

  Guess who I bumped into today? That’s right, only Big Norm ‘off of’ Twitter. I’ve headed about an hour out of Sydney to Richmond to say hello to Norm and his goats. While he may type that way, Norm doesn’t speak in 140 characters... Posted Dec 27 2010, 12:05 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Twitter, social media, Communication, Australia, goats, Big Norm, Alpaca [Edit Tags]

• Hats off to a Tweeting hack

  Having experienced magazine envy last week, today I experienced envy of another kind. Latika Bourke is a political reporter for 3AW, a radio station based in Melbourne. Her job is to while away her hours hangin’ out in the Parliament building in... Posted Dec 05 2010, 01:58 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, Australia, Government [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]

• Green with Outback envy

  Today I experienced a new emotion: magazine envy. It wasn’t a pretty sight either. Goodness only knows what Mark, the editor of Outback, thought as I sat stupidly gaping as he brought out issue after issue of one of the nicest-looking publications... Posted Nov 25 2010, 12:08 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Twitter, New Media, Communication, farming, media, Australia, magazines, OUtback, Ashes, RM Williams, rural [Edit Tags]

• Resc-ewe mission

  It may have kicked off slowly for some (it’s such a hassle when your blood sugar levels drop and give the symptoms of a hangover, innit?), but today I had a whirlwind education on the world of Australian sheep production. I’d gone along to... Posted Nov 24 2010, 12:46 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, Food, Australia, sheep, MLA, EBLEX, Meat and LIvestock Australia [Edit Tags]

• Sheep and a colour-blind scientist. I hope.

  Fed up with the bedbugs and in need of some fashion tips, I flew to Sydney yesterday to catch up with my favourite sparring partner, drinking buddy and wannabe cowboy, Rob. Rob was over from Perth for a sheep CRC meeting (of which he’s a board member... Posted Nov 23 2010, 10:54 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, Travel, Australia, Government, research, agricultural science, Sheep CRC, Ned Flanders, Sydney [Edit Tags]

• An online whinge

  Two hotels, a boat and four towns since I left Marty’s, and I haven’t managed to get a decent internet connection. This afternoon I got so fed up with the appalling wifi at my hostel (which is charged by the minute), that I’ve cycled... Posted Nov 17 2010, 05:53 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Communication, Australia [Edit Tags]

• Checking in with chickens

  (A title for Daniel, there) Ol’ Whip-cracker Abram will be happy to know that today I went to a farm. Two farms, in fact and a feed mill. I headed about an hour out of Delhi to a place called Gurgaon. The city’s in the next state to Delhi... Posted Oct 14 2010, 07:30 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, Food, India, chicken, globalisation, poultry, debenhams [Edit Tags]

• The farming front

  If you were a small child and didn’t fancy the idea of eating carrots, what would be the one thing that would tempt you into trying them? How about a sinister, prancing carrot who not only claims to be a doctor, but also reckons he’s your... Posted Aug 22 2010, 01:53 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, London, farming, Food, Government, rationing, Imperial War Museum, WWII, ministry of food, war, seasonality, jamie oliver [Edit Tags]

• The things I do for you guys…

  When Farmers Weekly celebrated it’s diamond anniversary last year, we ran a poll to find out what readers thought the greatest farming innovation of the past 75 years was. While the three-point linkage came out top, the mobile phone came in a close... Posted Aug 22 2010, 12:58 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, New Media, Communication, iPhone, farming, United States, Apple, iphone 4, ipad [Edit Tags]

• They’re not clones, okay?

  If I read one more headline about cloned cows being in the food chain, I think I’m going to scream. Let’s get this straight, people. You haven’t eaten a clone. You haven’t drunk the milk produced by a cloned cow. Even if you had... Posted Aug 04 2010, 05:13 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, radio, BBC, Communication, farming, Food, Television, daily mail, cloned milk, cloned beef, cloned cows, clones, clone, farming today [Edit Tags]

• Back to Blighty

  I’m writing this a few thousand feet over the Atlantic. Despite usually having narcoleptic tendencies whenever I board any kind of transportation, I’m annoyingly wide awake. Plus I’ve managed to pick the one seat on the plane where the... Posted Jul 18 2010, 07:15 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Communication, Nuffield, Travel, Nuffield Scholarship, Canada [Edit Tags]

• Miss Bee Hivin’

  See what I did with the title there? Nice outfit though, eh? One of those might come in handy when I’m in Australia trying to cope with the sand flies. I was back at Guelph university yesterday to see some of the work that’s being done there... Posted Jul 16 2010, 03:57 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, science, Canada, University of Guelph, bee decline, bees, bee hives, colony collapse disorder, bee beard [Edit Tags]

• The Guelphster

  In homage to my chum, Mr Timothy Relf, I thought I’d use rhyme to talk about my stay in Guelph. Then I came to my senses and realised there’s no way I could hope to match the Relfster’s poetry prowess (Sally Gunnell and poly tunnel?... Posted Jul 12 2010, 09:53 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Communication, farming, Travel, communications, science, Canada, tim relf, University of Guelph, research, owen roberts, Guelph, spark [Edit Tags]

• Tea and sympathy

  Seeing as he told me he doesn’t read blogs, I think I’m safe to say what I like about farmer Steve, who I met today. This is him overlooking the lake on his farm: I think Steve’s actually a closet Englishman, as he’s the first... Posted Jul 08 2010, 02:03 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, United States, Travel, Food, Countryside, Illinois, education, corn, soya [Edit Tags]

• The corn belt

  I’ve travelled about three hours south of Chicago to a place called Champaign, Illinois. Part of the United State’s corn belt, the countryside of Illinois is very flat, with a perfect mixture of sunshine and rain to be able to grow corn exceedingly... Posted Jul 04 2010, 09:24 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, United States, Nuffield, Illinois, communications, Jim Evans, University of Illinois, Champaign, ag communications [Edit Tags]

• Educating a city about farming

  I met an amazing chap this morning called Orion Samuelson. Think an American version of ‘Big Dog’ David Richardson and you wouldn’t be far wrong. He’s an agricultural journalist who, for the last 50 years, has reported on farm... Posted Jul 02 2010, 05:37 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, radio, Communication, farming, United States, Nuffield, Travel, Chicago, chicago tribune, Orion Samuelson [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]

• Lifting the lid on flipping great beef

  So it turns out that if this journalism malarkey all goes wrong, I can’t make good on my claim that I’d go and work in McDonald’s. I visited the Weymouth branch of the fast-food chain today as part of a trip organised by McDonald’s... Posted May 28 2010, 11:22 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, farming, Food, cattle, burgers, McDonalds, Blade Farming, Olympics, Weymouth, Richard Phelps, London 2012, free range, big mac, beef [Edit Tags]

• Fishy way for the media to make dosh

  Gob of the Wash is in London at the moment for the Chelsea Flower Show, so we’ve been going out to play in the evenings to take advantage of his escape from Lincolnshire. We both have a fairly silly sense of humour, so last night we went to Leicester... Posted May 25 2010, 04:38 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, New Media, Communication, London, farming, Celebrities, internet, chelsea flower show, leivcester square, richard herring, matthew naylor, the times, paywalls, sunday times [Edit Tags]

• Fighting fire with fire – how farming won’t win friends

  I had several failed attempts at starting a blog before I really got my teeth into writing this one (and I probably only stuck with this because I paid for the domain name and, being northern, I hate seeing money go to waste). It’s not that I lost... Posted May 19 2010, 08:48 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Soil Association, Organic, New Media, Communication, farming, United States, farm, Food, PETA, Richard Keller, Nottingham Forest, Ag Professional, news [Edit Tags]