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Cut farm costs
Lift farm productionIntroducing: Practical Farm IDEAS
Many farmers have some great ideas and innovations for improving the efficiency of their business. A better way to erect fencing; wrapping small bales into haylage for local horse owners; generating electricity from a stream.... there are literally thousands of ways farmers can make their lives easier, and their farms more profitable, without necessarily spending large sums on capital equipment.
I would like to introduce you and your farming friends and neighbours to the publication I started in 1992. Practical Farm Ideas gathers these ideas up and features them in a 48 page, full colour magazine, that's funded entirely by readers, not advertising, sponsorship or government. Farm IDEAS is the favourite reading of working, practical farmers throughout the UK and Ireland.
A spin-off from my farming in Carmarthenshire, the magazine is edited in Whitland, so contacts with Welsh farmers and farm organisations are always valued.
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Farm IDEAS is always looking for editorial, and welcomes farmer contact. Maybe you know of farmers with ideas and innovations that others would find interesting.
Best wishes
Mike Donovan
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November 17, 2009
When grassland aerating helps the townsfolk as well as farmers
Grassland aerating can make a real and substantial difference to flood protection, but since the last major floods in 2006 there appears to have been little progress made. Defra, under Hilary Benn, has commissioned several research projects but the they in themselves won't improve the situation. Why does progress take so long? Government's seem incapable of taking decisions and getting down to the job. Whether it's the supply of electrical energy, arming troops, sorting out immigration, controlling flooding, planning airports and other major infra-structure projects, it's easier to prevaricate than act. Maybe we need a law that forces them to reach a conclusion!
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