Land Use, The Green Belt and the Abuse of Land Holdings
Every so often I share some writing that did not make the cut of Marsh Fen and Town. In this case I look at land use, how agricultural...
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Aug 1623 min read
From Marsh to Fen and Field - Albert Seaton
In 2007 my late father-in-law John Wright pulled some old farm diaries out of his shed to show me. He allowed me to borrow them and I...
Aug 154 min read
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.
Aug 97 min read
From Marsh to Fen and Field - Stuart Hay
“There is no habitat in Lincolnshire which can truly be described as natural unless it be the sandy and muddy foreshores of the coast....
May 12 min read
Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond
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...
Sep 16, 20237 min read
Spalding's Butter Market
Down the side of Spalding's Civic Centre is a passageway called The Butter Market. Here is some of the history and the context in a...
Jul 28, 20234 min read
Farming for the Good Years.
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...
Jun 28, 20235 min read
Overdraft Charges
Farming businesses have seen considerable rises in working capital requirements that is, the amount of cash required to see your...
May 20, 20232 min read
Wax On Wax Off
2023 saw me living in Amble Northumberland for the first time having moved from my native Lincolnshire. In February I started to work...
Feb 15, 20234 min read
REPOSSESSION - What to expect if your farmhouse is to be repossessed.
The nature of farming is that often the Bank has a charge over a farmer’s home to support the business borrowing. This charge may be part...
Aug 24, 20224 min read
Profits Warning for your Holiday Stay
Farmers are consistently being told to diversify their businesses and one of the most common forms of diversification is the rural...
Jul 16, 20224 min read
THE DUTCH FARMER PROTEST – WINNERS AND LOSERS
The “Dutch N” case and the “Urgenda” case are compelling the Dutch government to seek massive reductions of greenhouse gases by 2040 and...
Jul 14, 20228 min read
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...
Jun 13, 20225 min read
Inertia of Farming
Beware the inertia of farming. It is perhaps the most commercially and emotionally hazardous factor of farming. It is the tendancy to...
Jun 5, 20222 min read
The British Countryside - Managed by Man
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...
Jun 1, 20224 min read
What Bank Manager?
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...
Mar 11, 20223 min read
KEEP YOUR BLOODY DOG ON A LEAD!
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...
Mar 9, 20227 min read
Principles of Self Defence
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...
Mar 5, 202210 min read
Coursing and Poaching – a problem old and new.
In the first century AD the Greek scholar Arrian encountered and participated with Romans using dogs to hunt by sight and described one...
Jan 13, 20222 min read
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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