A few weeks ago I recorded Bill Gates delivering the Richard Dimbleby lecture at the Royal Institution . It was entitled ‘ The Impatient Optimist ’ and centred on the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce child deaths from disease. …
Breaking news I have spent the last three weeks on holiday in the USA. This came about because we got tickets for the final practice day and par 3 competition of the US Masters (golf) which is held in Georgia. As a consequence we toured south east USA. …
Jim reports from his recent trip to the south eastern states of the USA. Rocky Springs sounds like the name of a small town in a 1950s or 1960s movie. In fact it is (or was) a small settlement a few miles East of the Mississippi river. In 1860 it had …
I have recently taken a renewed interest in which nozzles farmers fit to their sprayers. On the heavy soils in East Anglia the vast majority regularly use Air Induction nozzles to reduce spray drift but when I asked the question in the Cotswolds …
The pressure for a limited return of straw burning to aid the control of black-grass has not gone away. I’ve just written a brief data review on this as part of a more comprehensive report on the impact of straw burning on crops and cropping. Don’t get …
‘What’s new’ is a question frequently asked by farmers, advisers and the press at field events. I was certainly asked it several times last week at the Cereals Event. The inevitability of being asked the question means I should really have a prepared …
Well, the UK Government has certainly thrown its weight behind GM. I cannot disagree with any of the arguments made but creating a clear picture of the advantages of the technology is not easy. The reason I say this is because I learnt a lot about the …
Around this time last year I wrote a blog suggesting that winter wheat yields could be ‘disappointing’. This was based on the lack of solar radiation in the first half of grain fill. What I didn’t foresee was the devastating impact of waterlogging on …
We will all be doomed if the latest GM trial goes ahead. That’s what we’ve heard over the years from the eco-zealots. They’ve said on each occasion that ‘once the genie is out of the bottle there will be no going back’ and eco-meltdown is inevitable. Well …
The temperature outside is 32°C. What a contrast to last year. The climate scientists now say that we will have to get used to variations in the weather that are accentuated by the increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. These …
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