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• How farming can butter up journalists

  The past few weeks have been very quiet in Farmers Weekly Towers. At one point, there were so few people in the office that I was worried I’d got confused and accidentally come to work on a Sunday. The supply of serious news always tail off during... Posted Aug 17 2011, 01:36 PM by NufSaid Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, media, cows, Weird, Yvonne, butter, NFU Mutual, bavaria [Edit Tags]

• Mercosaur sighting #2

  I wonder if the artist who drew the illustration for page 20 of this week’s issue of Farmers Weekly had seen my Mercosaur picture. Coincidence? Read More... Posted Mar 17 2011, 09:52 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Weird, Mercosaur, Illustration [Edit Tags]

• Chewy and viscous

  I promise to blog about the Soil Association conference properly at some point (I’ll be putting my ranting hat on – be warned), but in the meantime I thought I’d share this with you. One of the rather nice perks of going to the SA conference... Posted Feb 14 2011, 05:55 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Soil Association, Organic, Food, chocolate, green and blacks, baking, cakes, recipe [Edit Tags]

• Settling back in

  I’ve avoided blogging for a week or so, partly to give you a rest and partly because I didn’t trust myself not to just whinge about the fact that England is BLOODY FREEZING. In just 24 hours on a plane I lost 35 degrees. Seriously, I don’t... Posted Feb 01 2011, 04:02 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, London, farming, Travel, Australia, CAP, sun, FW, spring, weather, hobbit, shoes, iced coffee, cold [Edit Tags]

• Dear Pierre Cardin…

  …your suitcases suck. Big time. There’s nowt like being forced to drag what feels like a bag of rocks through a busy train station and then down busy pavements in blazing sunshine after the wheel on your case explodes. It’s even better... Posted Dec 28 2010, 12:41 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Travel, Australia, Big Norm, blue mountains [Edit Tags]

• My leaving party

  It was so nice of the big cheeses at FW Towers to throw me a going-away party at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane yesterday. Thanks to the 1200 or so people who made the effort to turn up, and to the Prince of Charles for the video message –... Posted Oct 08 2010, 07:18 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, London, Farmers Weekly Awards, John Hoskin, FW Awards, party [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]

• 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]

• Racy

  The Farmers Weekly crew had an outing to Epsom races this week to celebrate, amongst other things, winning a PPA Award earlier this year. It was a successful evening – Dan’s curse appears to have lifted as his attempt at betting didn’t... Posted Aug 22 2010, 11:30 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, races, Epsom races, racing, Epsom, epsom racecourse, horse racing, horces [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]

• Where’s Wally?

  Here she is: I’m getting the insults in before Gob of the Wash does. It’s a peach of a hat, innit? Bet you’re wondering why I have a scrunched up piece of felt and a feather protruding from my bonce, don’t you? Every year the Farmers... Posted Jul 28 2010, 09:24 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Weird, Countryside, hats, Gob of the Wash, Famers Weekly, Where's Wally, CLA Game Fair [Edit Tags]

• Sabotage

  Before I went off on my Nuffield adventure, the lovely Nick Padwick – Co-op farmer and FW Farmer of the Year – spent a week in FW Towers as guest editor. Aside from seeing how many times he could get his mug in the magazine (I haven’t... Posted Jul 21 2010, 12:20 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, peppers, the co-op, Nick Padwick, Young Rolf, plants [Edit Tags]

• Sojourn to Cereals

  Apologies for all those waiting with baited breath for news about the naked Scottish sheep, I’ll get around to it at some point, honest. I’ve been a bit busy entertaining some Nuffield chums who have come over from Australia to follow a strict... Posted Jun 09 2010, 02:49 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Nuffield, FW, Cereals Event 2010, Cereals, Cereals Event [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]

• 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]

• 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]

• Sparkling stories

  Whenever we’re sent an abysmally-written story or press release at FW Towers, Mr News Editor and I jokingly say we’re going to bin it because there’s “no way you can glitter a pile of manure”. Apparently we’re wrong... Posted May 16 2010, 05:04 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, London, Weird, Whipsnade, Chris Ofili, NVZ, cattle, Tate Britain, manure, Tate, slurry, elephant [Edit Tags]

• Take your time, it’s only a deadline…

  It’s taken long enough, but we’ve finally got ourselves a new DEFRA secretary. Caroline Spelman was announced as the department’s head honcho at about 7pm last night. If I were paranoid, I’d say the politicians were timing their... Posted May 13 2010, 06:40 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Politics [Edit Tags]

• Say it like you mean it

  The Rural Payments Agency has been featuring more than usual in the pages of Farmers Weekly over the last few weeks thanks, once again, to its disastrous handling of the single farm payment (farm subsidies, for those outside the EU) and mapping updates... Posted May 01 2010, 12:15 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, Communication, farming, Government, RPA, sunsidy, single payment, mapping [Edit Tags]

• Is this going in the magazine?

  Without exception, conversations with young farmers at this weekend’s AGM in Torquay ran like this: Tipsy young farmer: Are you that woman from Farmers Weekly? Caroline: Yes. TYF: Can I have your Farmers Weekly t-shirt? C: No. TYF: Will you take... Posted Apr 27 2010, 08:41 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, New Media, Communication, farming, Nuffield, internet, Torquay, young farmers, yfc, yfc agm, magazines, FW [Edit Tags]

• Serious journalism

  There are times when I do my best to convey an image of being a serious, hard-hitting journalist. Last night, dressed as a leopard whilst being hugged by an aligator, I realised this weekend can’t be classed one of those times. I’m currently... Posted Apr 25 2010, 03:29 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Torquay, young farmers, yfc, yfc agm, Fawlty Towers [Edit Tags]

• Musical interlude

  Thought I’d have an election break just to mention a fairly profitable farm diversification. The full Glastonbury line-up was announced yesterday, so Mr Business, Mr Arable and Miss Machinery and I have been discussing our plans for our Farmers... Posted Apr 16 2010, 02:26 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Agriculture, farming, Michael Eavis, farm diversification, Glastonbury, Music [Edit Tags]

• Chocs away

  I was asked by a farming chum who was visiting Farmers Weekly Towers yesterday how I managed to get any work done in the office. I hadn’t really thought about it before, but the greyness and lack of natural light isn’t really conducive to... Posted Apr 01 2010, 04:53 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Food, chocolate, easter eggs, easter, FW Towers, office [Edit Tags]