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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]

• The funny side of farming

  I managed to hold it together until the stereo started blaring out “Where’s your sausage gone?” to the tune of ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’. It was at that point – stood outside Downing Street in front of a 16ft, shiny... Posted Mar 04 2011, 09:21 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, London, farming, Weird, Celebrities, farm, Food, Government, pigs, BPEX, giant sausage, sausage, pig [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]

• The end is nigh

  So this is it. After three countries, 101 days, 41 different towns and cities, seven changes in time zone and more than 100 blog posts, I’m on my way home. I’ve met some amazing people along the way, visited incredible farms and businesses... Posted Jan 20 2011, 11:43 AM by NufSaid Filed under: farming, Nuffield, Travel, farm, Australia, fishing, Grand Prix, flood, Flooding, Tim Tams [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]

• “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]

• Cuteness and sheep

  Read More... Posted Nov 21 2010, 08:38 AM by NufSaid Filed under: farming, farm, Australia, sheep, lone pine, Brisbane, koala sanctuary, koalas, merino [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]

• So who’d pay the ransome?

  There was a good few minutes yesterday afternoon when I genuinely thought I was being kidnapped. It says a lot about me that during that time I a) updated my Facebook status with words to that effect and b) started thinking about whether I could surreptitiously... Posted Oct 19 2010, 07:31 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Travel, farm, India, kidnap, Indian agriculture, soap factory, soap production, cotton [Edit Tags]

• The age of austerity

  Mr News Editor, Mr Chief Reporter and I went into London on Tuesday to have lunch with DEFRA farm minister Jim Paice. We were meeting him ahead of his official announcement about the possibility of allowing farmers to cull badgers to help combat bovine... Posted Sep 15 2010, 07:51 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, London, farming, Politics, farm, badger cull, badgers, tb, Government, RPA, Rural Payments Agency, DEFRA, bovine TB, farm minister, Jim Paice [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]

• Bank Holiday comes six times a year…

  …Days of enjoyment to which everyone cheers. Really? Obviously Damon Albarn hadn’t been to where I visited today when he wrote that song. The sun was actually out for the first time in ages this morning, so we headed to the east coast to make... Posted Aug 28 2010, 09:31 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, farm, Nottingham, Countryside, Lincolnshire, rain, blur, coast, Cleethorpes, wind farm, turbine, day trip, combining, bank holiday, wind turbine, Damon Albarn [Edit Tags]

• A few of my favourite things

  My tent’s up (hurrah for the pop-up variety), the sun’s out, I’m on a farm and I have three days of music ahead of me. What could be better… Read More... Posted Jun 24 2010, 05:21 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, farm, Glastonbury, Music, Countryside, festival [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]

• Real interest in Real Food

  I’ve got the feeling my stomach’s currently trying to work out exactly why I’ve fed it (in chronological order) olive tapenade, strawberry fudge, sausage in onion marmalade, honey yoghurt, salted chocolate and a venison pasty today.... Posted May 09 2010, 09:46 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, London, farming, Nuffield, farm, Food, sheep shearing, mutton, sheep, Real Food Festival, Elan Valley [Edit Tags]

• Just call me Miss Eccentricity

  So Gordon Brown’s the ‘worst Prime Minister ever’, according to Manish Sood, a prospective Labour MP from Norwich. If Mr Sood hadn’t realised before, he’s now learning that slating your prospective boss like that isn’t... Posted May 04 2010, 10:35 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, Twitter, New Media, BBC, Communication, London, farming, Politics, farm, Government, general election, election, Sood, prime minister, Evening Standard, vote, Manish Sood, Norwich, Paul Waugh, gordon Brown [Edit Tags]

• Everyone on the bus in five minutes… (CSC reprise)

  If there’s something I didn’t expect to come back from Ireland with, it was a farmer’s tan and an appreciation of Guinness. In just three days on our mini Nuffield reunion we managed to fit in…. A tour of Dublin (complete with... Posted Apr 11 2010, 11:49 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Nuffield, Travel, farm, Ireland, Guinness [Edit Tags]

• Some badger to love

  Brian May’s back. Fan’s of my last post on the hirsute, badger-loving rocker’s anti-cull campaign will be distraught to know I haven’t got any quality puns this time. Sorry, Steve. I have, however, got this brilliant photo of the... Posted Apr 07 2010, 04:14 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, farming, Celebrities, farm, Food, Wales, badgers, tb, Brian May, Queen, badger [Edit Tags]