I have just been listening to Barbara Bray’s podcast about Women Positively Ageing and the first episode is about gut health. Now it may...

I know many farmers, several tweeters, and a few friends that all express the same feeling at different times. Loneliness. Regardless of...

Beware the inertia of farming. It is perhaps the most commercially and emotionally hazardous factor of farming. It is the tendancy to...

In July 2021 I posted a detailed description on how a Bank manager views a farm for lending risk purposes. The advice in it still holds...

In my third post looking at problems farmers have with dogs and people I look at livestock worrying. This is intended to be a view of the...

This is the second of three posts where I look at problems farmers have with dogs and people. The first post looked at Coursing and some...

In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...

All of us can fall into the trap of identifying ourselves by our job. The longer you are in a particular job, whether it be in a food...

“There is a sense the victims of fraud feel abandoned.” Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird. (BBC Radio 4 MoneyBox 22Jan 2022) The crime...

Once upon a time there were two brothers, very healthy and in their late sixties, one had no children, the other had a son who was in the...

As a volunteer for LRSN I am lucky, I have a whole army of Julies and I have needed them. But I never thought I would. Farm Community...

There are three areas you need to examine to take control of your money: LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING THREE AREAS TO TAKE ACTION: 1. CONTROL...

Many times as an Agricultural Bank Manager I sat down with an apparently profitable farming business and the owners sat there open...

How do you feel about your farm? • Does it feel harder than it should be? • Are you constantly short of money? • Do you keep receiving...

This series of four posts is a very simple guide for you to explore where your farm’s money is going to and what you can do about it....

In the following I make no apology for the simplicity of what I have put. What seems obvious to one person is not to another. Indeed it...