The Cereals Event is held at a time of year when farmers look back over the season and hone plans for the coming season. This year, the change in the EU support arrangements and falling cereal prices pr ovide much food for thought. Costs of wheat …
Until the World Cup it has been a good footballing year for me. As a lifetime supporter of Leicester City, I was over the moon this spring because an amazing unbeaten run culminated in their promotion to the Premiership as champions of the Championship. …
The end of June is around halfway through grain fill of winter wheat and for the last couple of years I have had a stab at predicting the yields of the coming harvest at this stage. In 2012, I predicted below average yields, based on well below average …
It’s not every year that you can walk ten minutes down to the end of your street and see the Tour de France go by. It is really a spectacle. We were lucky enough to see all the first three stages as one of our daughters lives in a part of Yorkshire that’s …
Our garden and allotment are now in full production and currently we do not have to buy any vegetables. This weekend we ate our first tomatoes and the first aubergines are a few days away. We really enjoy gardening but over the years I have often …
My final pre-harvest prediction of wheat yields was superseded by the actual harvest! As expected, yields are exceptionally high in some areas. The reported variable yields must in part be explained by the variation in June rainfall, which was a result of …
I read recently, possibly in the Farmer’s Weekly, that a Scottish farmer said their Independence Referendum is a choice between hope and fear. Thinking about it, I suppose it was always going to be so. The ‘yes’ campaign is bound to be espousing their …
Is Woody Allen a genius who saw through the food police’s plot to stop us enjoying life? His 1973 film ‘Sleeper’ was about civilization 300 years hence and it derived great amusement from the 1970s trendy issue of not eating saturated fats. It seems he …
Last week the papers reported that for the first time since the monthly statistics were gathered (January 1989), the quantity of food sold in a particular month in GB fell when compared to the same month in the previous year. In July 2014 the quantity of …
We have just bought a new toaster. The old one had a broken handle and so it had to go. I could not help but be reminded of the contrast between replacing this slightly faulty toaster with mind-sets when we were first married in the 1970s. Then we would …
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