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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 the summer months thanks to the end of [...]

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Aug 17 2011
A cheesy disappointment

Driving through this part of Victoria I’ve seen a lot of cattle country, with fields alternating largely between Angus and Holstein herds (or beef and dairy cows, for the non-farmers amongst you). Like a lot of the state I’ve seen already, the rolling hills around here are more than a little...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Dec 14 2010
I spent five hours yesterday feeling like I was living the Christmas story of Mary and Joseph’s quest to find somewhere to stay. I thought I was going to have to make like Baby Jebus and crash in a stable, but luckily I managed to find the last bed in a ‘quaint’ (aka pokey, grotty ...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Dec 7 2010
Slow mooving traffic

I’ve mentioned earlier how crazy the traffic is in India. Aside from the bonkers car and rickshaw drivers, the roads have to contend with beggars, street hawkers, families piled onto motorbikes and, most randomly, cattle. Cows are bloomin’ everywhere. They’re grazing on the motorway...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Oct 25 2010
Painting the friesians blue…

I was looking through some old copies of FW yesterday and came across the interview I’d done with one of the chaps from the Royal Agricultural Society of England last year. I did the interview the day after it’d been announced that the Royal Show, once the jewel in the crown of agricultural...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 24 2010
Re: Friends of the Earth, the Soya Bean and it's role in Planet Frendly Farming.

from: Islands Independent community newspaper, Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada (author Barbara Grimmer "Farmers' Stand") “ It’s the fastest way to sequester carbon, collect solar energy, and rebuild soil. Grazing is truly amazing.” Joel Salatin, Virginia farmer and author I tried...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by bccanada on Tue, Mar 9 2010
Health tips from cows

So, did you spend your Friday afternoon being massaged with horse cream by a man with a tiny beard and an American accent as good as Matthew Naylor’s? You did? Why what a coincidence – me too. It may not have been the most conventional of physio sessions, but it turns out that the same liniment...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Sat, Feb 13 2010
Re: Need a recommendation for a book on Farming developments in last 100 years

A really important book to read is this one by Agricultural Policy Expert Dr. Richard North.... www.pighealth.com/agriculture.htm A very outspoken, down-to-earth and yet factual guide to UK farming and food in the 20th century.

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by HolisticHealth on Sat, Oct 31 2009
Payments to Dairy Farmers

The issue of payments to Dairy Farmers raised its head again on the local news this morning, and much to my horror the reporter was suggesting that Dairy Farmers should just lump the fact that other people control the price for the product they produce and they should have to put up with no making a...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by sadoldsage on Wed, Aug 26 2009
Help needed on farmers views towards agri-environmental schemes

Hi there, I am a student studying Environmental science at university and am in serious need of a bit more data for a project I am doing for ECM. If any of you have a couple of minutes (if that) could you please fill in the answers to the following questions (very small questionnaire)? 1. What size is...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by student@mmu on Fri, Mar 28 2008

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