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Aug 229 min read

Sidebar - 1876 Harvest Past - A Lesson from History?

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...

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Sidebar – The Importance of Rare Breeds……. And their farmers.

Aug 154 min read

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Sidebar – The Importance of Rare Breeds……. And their farmers.

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

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Sidebar - The Loss of the Cranberry in the Fens of Lincolshire

Jul 2012 min read

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Sidebar - The Loss of the Cranberry in the Fens of Lincolshire

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

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The Courting of Agriculture by Fascists – a lesson from history.

Jan 294 min read

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The Courting of Agriculture by Fascists – a lesson from history.

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...

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NETHERLANDS FARMER’S PROTEST - NEDERLANDS BOERENPROTEST

Jul 14, 20228 min read

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NETHERLANDS FARMER’S PROTEST - NEDERLANDS BOERENPROTEST

“Twice as much food using half as many resources” was the ambitious aim of Dutch Agriculture. Indeed, you can see it being achieved and...

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Jan 13, 20222 min read

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To Plough the Headland and be Damned

Today I read a tweet from a farmer on the Lincolnshire Wolds showing his uncultivated field margin with the words, "Great over winter...

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WHAT ABOUT A SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE COUNTRYSIDE?

Nov 7, 20214 min read

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WHAT ABOUT A SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE COUNTRYSIDE?

I am becoming very tired of all the people shouting about farming having to be sustainable and the countryside having to be managed...

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Jul 9, 20219 min read

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Is the late Sir Richard Body the architect of current Conservative Agricultural policy in the UK?

As a teenager going to Spalding Grammar School I would often see our member of Parliament Richard Body walking near his house in Welland...

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