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  • Are you cut out for being a Manager or an Entrepreneur?

    A research project has just been reported which studiedthe minds of successful managers compared with successful entrepreneurs... The entrepreneurs’ brains were more active in the region where “risky" and "hot" decisions are made. The Cambridge University researcher team go on to say that...
    Posted to People in farming (Forum) by HolisticHealth on Thu, Nov 13 2008
  • Pub, Pool and Biofuel

    Everything has changed a gear and life here is speeding past all of a sudden. We've settled into the week's timetable of lectures and have discovered the village pub. The Altisidora (named after a famous race horse) is an pub much loved for miles around. On a Tuesday, we have lectures from 9...
    Posted to College Calendar Blog (Weblog) by lizzie j on Tue, Oct 14 2008
  • Norfolk Four Course Rotation (1950's at college)

    All the young farm college students will laugh me off this page, because there does not seem to be such a thing as a full rotation these days. It seems a rotation for pests and diseases, and that's all. What you young un's must understand that there is a rotation to cope with weeds , mostly annual...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by fretaw on Sat, Oct 4 2008
  • To Farming College I Was Sent

    Tipped us all out into a huge rhubarb patch, the clumsy driver was the head of department, that cart was decommissioned shortly afterwards as too unstable for the job. This is a story as it happened, of some of the highlights of my year at college This is a picture the old Hall, the windows on the second...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by fretaw on Thu, Oct 2 2008
  • Hello from Rob

    Rob writes: I have mixed feelings with the end of summer looming, and my thoughts turning towards returning to Harper. I’m excited about the prospect of seeing all of my friends and having a proper catch-up, instead of the stilted conversations of the summer, trying to talk on mobiles while sitting on...
    Posted to College Calendar Blog (Weblog) by Tim.Relf on Fri, Sep 19 2008
  • Hello from Lizzie

    Lizzie writes: What do you want to do that for?” In my experience, this is the typical reaction of a farmer to a 19-year-old girl from a non-farming family, on announcing she’s going to study Agriculture. The bemusement (understandable, given farming’s recent history) is often followed by something like...
    Posted to College Calendar Blog (Weblog) by Tim.Relf on Fri, Sep 19 2008
  • Re: middle year jobs

    Would you tell us more about yourself, and skills you have to offer, maybe what course you are studying, and where you would like to work.
    Posted to People in farming (Forum) by Sparepart on Fri, Jan 4 2008
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