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• 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 Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Agriculture, farming, Weird, America, United States, Politics, farm, Food, ag, photography, law, Florida, farm access, photos, prison [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]

• 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]

• 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]

• Any GM volunteers?

  I thought I’d use my unexpected rest stop at Champaign train station to catch up on a few blog posts. I’m swinging wildly from finding this escapade hilariously funny to getting really narked about my travel-related incompetency, so I don’t... Posted Jul 08 2010, 01:40 AM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, United States, Travel, GM, Food, Illinois, corn, soya, roundup, farmer, genetically modified, GMs [Edit Tags]

• Shootin’ the breeze

  I had my first taste of home-made icream-making today (I believe my official role was foreman): We were joined for dinner by my my hosts’ (Jim and Marlene) neighbour Dave, an arable farmer who lives next door. Dave’s son has taken over most... Posted Jul 05 2010, 04:58 PM by NufSaid Filed under: United States, Illinois, icecream [Edit Tags]

• Popping corn (not corks) in Champaign

  While my host, Jim, has spent most of his life working for the University of Illinois, he’s continued to dabble in farming. His father, Walker, was interested in growing popcorn so Jim has followed in his footsteps and grows about half an acre of... Posted Jul 05 2010, 04:45 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, United States, Travel, Food, Illinois, Jim Evans, University of Illinois, popcorn [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]

• Laters, Windy City

  No meetings yesterday so Kev, an Irish scholar who happens to be passing through Chicago, and I spent the day together doing some proper touristy stuff. First though, we had to head back tot he airport so he could pick up his hire truck. Apparently he... Posted Jul 04 2010, 03:20 PM by NufSaid Filed under: United States, Nuffield, Travel, Chicago [Edit Tags]

• A taste of Chicago

  I reckoned I could spend ages writing about all the stuff I did on Friday, so here’s a photo summary, cos it’s not like I don’t take enough pictures…. Read More... Posted Jul 03 2010, 07:46 AM by NufSaid Filed under: United States, Nuffield, Travel, Chicago [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]

• Chicago-a-go-go

  Well that was a lame headline, wasn’t it? I’m not at my writing best today thanks to my brain thinking it’s 2am and the fact I’ve been taking a cocktail of Lemsips every few hours since I left London. I always seem to get the lurgy... Posted Jul 02 2010, 02:22 AM by NufSaid Filed under: United States, Travel, Chicago, anish kappoor, frank gehry [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]

• TTFN

  If there’s one thing I’ve loved about the last week, it’s been listening to our fellow scholars from around the world. It’s been great to get a feel of what the issues are for farmers globally, to hear about different crops and scales of production and... Posted Mar 15 2010, 01:41 PM by NufSaid Filed under: United States, Nuffield, Travel, Nuffield Scholarship, Welsh, Australians [Edit Tags]

• Catching up with the Amish

  Today I learnt I definitely wouldn’t want to live near a composting facility. Be thankful these photos come smell-free: The visit here was part of learning how mushrooms are produced – apparently Pennsylvania accounts for 35% of all the fungi... Posted Mar 12 2010, 11:09 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, United States, Nuffield, Travel, mushrooms, compost, Amish, GM [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]

• A super dairy

  After almost a week of meetings it was great to get out on-farm today. We drove into Pennsylvania to look at a high-tech, robotic milking system. It was an impressive setup – 2400 cattle milking more than 27m litres of milk a year. While hygiene... Posted Mar 10 2010, 10:02 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, farming, United States, Travel, Pennsylvania, farm, apples, milk, Nocton, super dairy, dairy [Edit Tags]

• Adapt, innovate and overcome…

  I met Abraham Lincoln today. No, I haven’t gone mad (though an 8-hour tour of a battle site might have been enough to affect a lesser person), I really did. We spent the day at Gettysburg, the site of one of the key battles in the American civil... Posted Mar 09 2010, 09:32 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Communication, United States, Nuffield, Travel, Gettysburg, leadership, Abraham Lincoln [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]