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Re: Bicton College under threat

Peter, I find this a strange post you have put up here. I will respone in my usual obtuse way. This is because I live in the land of the Angles (East Anglia). When the Angles landed here: the Right Angles went north the acute angles went south the obtuse angles stayed here. Agricultural college's...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Fri, Mar 5 2010
Re: Global warming

Toll alert prairie man. Glorious things are spoken. Why does the poll today show that in excess of 90% of farmers think agriculture is the solution? I suspect that society, if they are interested in the global warming thing think differently. Any one see the man Snow on 4 news last night with school...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Fri, Dec 11 2009
Re: The lancet is a farming journal now

[quote user="kansasfarmer"]educated dimwits would actually farm for 4 or 5 years before coming up with theories on how we should do it[/quote] What is sauce for the turkey is sauce for the dimwit? These dimwits don't farm because like 99% of people, they simply do not have the cash wherewithall...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Fri, Nov 27 2009
the need for youngsters in headlines again - what are you going to do about it?

This is a perennial subject and like Peter and his wolf farmers don't believe it and government fails to pay for it. They both will point to some nefarious payments they think they have given but it is only because they have opened their mouth and the wind has done the talking for them just look...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Thu, Oct 22 2009
Re: Farming in the year 2084

[quote user="Tim.Relf"]One of the articles we're writing for FW's 75th anniversary supplement (it's free with the Oct 30 issue) is a look at how farming could have changed by the year 2084[/quote] free, thank you. This is a nice one to contemplate. If you listen to the environmental...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Wed, Oct 21 2009
Re: Farmer 'banned from delivering wheat to mill'

I am always interested in these reports. I remember one of the British farms I worked on, about 1980, we sold malting barley for £140/ton. [At this point I was fresh out of University and returned to Britain after traveling to various farms in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and from a background...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Tue, Oct 6 2009
Re: What should we call tractor drivers?

[quote user="2658336"]Calling jobs with perfectly acceptable names something different and politically correct always misfires[/quote] Language is one of our more interesting human innovations. It bares witness to change, especially when new words appear and take hold. Tractor driver was unknown...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Fri, Sep 4 2009
61.4 million and counting

Our island is growing with more people than ever. This is good, as it is important that we have more energy derived from increased numbers of young people. This is good for food producers as there are more mouths to feed. I do fear that some of our more reactionary friends see their fellow man as a problem...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Fri, Aug 28 2009
The Future Talent of Farming

I've just been reading the Royal Agricultural Society of England report regarding the need for attracting new talent and how to go about it for the next decade. They are suggesting that farming current recruitment and promotions is poor when compared to other industries requiring a similar level...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by sadoldsage on Fri, Jul 31 2009
field trials proper education situation

This wonderful picture says so much about advanced agricultural nations and their desire to learn. Why don't our membership bodies and various institutions for helping farmers not get it. We have about 78 different institutions who say they want to help farmers, but you never see this here. Interested...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by motley on Wed, Jul 22 2009

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