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

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...

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...

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

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...

First of all I thank my great Irish friend Jonathan Swift for his inspiration. Having done so much to serve and instruct the agricultural...

In May 2012, Dianne Simmons, the first known person to catch TB from alpacas in the UK said, " I fear petting zoos could be riddled with...

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...

Many years ago a family of farming brothers in Cambridgeshire had the opportunity to cash in on their land by having it developed for...

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