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November 22, 2008

Farmers face big ups and downs

The Three Counties Agricultural Society Annual Conference showed that the future decade was not going to be plain sailing, even in a world where commodities were in relative short supply. Profs David Hughes and Allan Buckland both told us that we live in an unstable world, politically, economically, climatically... all which present challenges to agriculture and the farmers that make up the industry.

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November 03, 2008

NFU needs a new approach to conservation issues

The Ross-Brand fiasco illustrated just how big corporations can get it so wrong, and the result has put the spotlight on the £135 Licence Fee that finances it all. This week Paul Temple, NFU vice president, played much the same hand with the bird brigade, saying "prove it" to survey results showing bird population declines, but the SFP is no more sacrosanct than the Licence Fee....


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