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Nov 135 min read

Farm Inheritance Tax - Not Just Land

In this second post I will demonstrate how inheritance tax can affect a tenant farmer by referring to a real life example from my past...

Nov 1114 min read

Spalding Sugar Beet Factory

Modern sugar production from sugar beet owes its origins in the Prussian Empire of 1801 which saw the first beet sugar factory opened in...

Oct 218 min read

The evolution of Spalding's Markets - Meat National Supply vs. Local Supply

The railway opened up markets across the country and it is no accident that we see railway sidings close to many livestock markets in...

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...

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.

Jul 17, 202319 min read

TB Blues

The Apocalypse Bovine TB is a potential apocalypse that can hit a farm with devastating consequences. These are made all the worse by the...

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