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  • A possible hairy situation for the NFU

    Dear oh dear. I can’t image the NFU team are a bunch of happy bunnies at the moment. Having given DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman a telling off this week for not taking farming seriously enough, this morning it’s emerged government plans for a badger cull to tackle bovine TB are being delayed. The setback...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 18 2011
  • The DEFRA love-in turns sour

    After the glamour of the Soil Association conference in Manchester last week, this week I’m at the NEC in Birmingham for the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting. With no general election on the immediate horizon, union president Peter Kendall in the hot seat for another year and a DEFRA...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Feb 15 2011
  • Hair’s apparent

    You haven’t been waiting here since Wednesday night to find out who was crowned NFU vice president have you? Oh dear, I should’ve directed you to NayLo’s website – after all, he’s the place for breaking news, hey Kip? In case you don’t know, Gwyn Jones got the nod...
    Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 26 2010
  • What can the NFU do better?

    Some interesting comments have come in on my last blog post about NFU bias . I don't think FW is biased towards the NFU and I tend to agree with Peter Wells when he says the NFU can do more to consult with its own members before entering talks with Government. A more joined up approach is definitely...
    Posted to Jane King's blog (Weblog) by Jane King on Tue, Apr 1 2008
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