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• 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 Select Tags... SaveCancel 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]

• Decorating tips

  Another interesting day, this time at the Pennsylvania farm centre for a conference. Most of the speakers talked about US farm policy and the States’ perspective on food production. It was good to see that despite what we might think in Europe,... Posted Mar 11 2010, 10:32 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, farming, United States, Nuffield, Travel, Politics, Pennsylvania [Edit Tags]

• Packing it all in

  So tomorrow my Nuffield Adventure begins proper. I’m heading the whole mile and a half down the road from Chez Stocks to the Farmers Club, where I’ll meet the 20 or so other people from the UK who have been selected as Nuffield Scholars and... Posted Mar 02 2010, 11:14 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, Conference, London, pets, Weird, Miss Deputy Livestock Editor, guinea pig, America, United States, Washington, Nuffield, Travel, Farmers Club, Nuffield Scholarship [Edit Tags]

• Hair’s apparent

  You haven’t been waiting here since Wednesday night to find out who was crowned NFU vice president have you? Oh dear, I should’ve directed you to NayLo’s website – after all, he’s the place for breaking news, hey Kip? In... Posted Feb 26 2010, 11:31 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, farming, NFU, Meurig Raymond, Gwyn Jones, Peter Kendall, nfu conference [Edit Tags]

• Reasons not to be healthy

  I’m at the Hilton hotel in Birmingham at the moment for the NFU conference. It’s the third time I’ve been to it and I’m wondering if this year is proof I’ve finally made it in the world. For the first time ever my hotel room is actually in the main hotel... Posted Feb 22 2010, 10:55 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Conference, Birmingham, embarrassment, NFU [Edit Tags]

• Throwing insults to spread the message

  I was in Birmingham today, the (current) home of Cadbury’s chocolate, one of my favourite modern buildings in the country: and the location of this year’s Soil Association conference. There’s been a few articles in the press over the... Posted Feb 03 2010, 11:00 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, Conference, Soil Association, Birmingham, Twitter, Organic [Edit Tags]