Every so often I publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following is exactly 148 years ago and will...

The value of both rare breeds and those maintaining them is vastly underappreciated to the detriment of our food security.

In 1986 I was sat in Spalding Gentlemen’s Society when the then President of the Society, Bob Whiston told me that when he was a child...

In this piece I look how drainage of the Fens for agriculture saw the loss of the cranberry in the Lincolnshire Fens.

I sat down and started writing a book in March 2022. The idea of a book was spawned just over thirty years ago when I was a young bank...

In the 1930’s Oswald Mosely and his Fascists courted the farmers of East Anglia for their support. Perhaps as you read this you may...

I recently read a tweet that expressed the fear that every farmer feels this time of year: " Just totted up what we've spent on the...

Every person that has well run personal or business finances works to a budget of various simplicity or complexity. Whether it be how...

INTRODUCTION This guide is designed primarily for UK arable farmers but can be applied to others especially those businesses with a...

In the graveyard at Gedney Hill churchyard is a modest gravestone that due to the ravages of time and growth of moss cannot quite be...

The “Dutch N” case and the “Urgenda” case are compelling the Dutch government to seek massive reductions of greenhouse gases by 2040 and...

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...

I cannot help but feel as I wander through the British countryside that its nature is as God intended......managed by man. The last week...

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...