Posted April 11th, 2012
Not so many years ago most farm businesses would not have felt broadband connectivity to be the necessity it is today. But as the world has rapidly moved online, internet access has failed to keep pace in rural areas. While city dwellers are now relishing the prospect of 100Mbit connection speeds (and even beyond) with…
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Posted December 7th, 2011
In a world where pretty much everything seems to happen online now, you would expect there to be a wealth of useful content on the practical aspects of organic farming. Somewhere among all those celebrity tantrums on Twitter and videos of cute kittens doing funny things, there really is a wealth of helpful, real world…
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Posted August 17th, 2011
Statistics; love them or loathe them, we’re stuck with them. In fact, we lap them up and bandy them around every day in one way or another. Yet we can also be quick to dismiss them if they don’t fit a particular argument. Many a wag through history has come up with a cutting and…
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Posted June 22nd, 2011
It’s always nice to be praised when you least expect it! When we read with interest the Farmers Weekly social media special in the current issue of the magazine, little did we expect to turn to page 89 and find this humble little blog listed as the ‘Best for… organic’.
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Posted June 15th, 2011
We keep saying, OF&Gs’ concerns about GM technology is not about taking the Luddite position regardless of anything else; we’re just pretty sure the case isn’t proved that it’s safe or can be controlled when it’s out in the environment. Interesting then, to read this take on the situation we find ourselves in: GM regulators…
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Posted February 16th, 2011
If that’s your first reaction when someone asks if you have a Facebook account, now might be the time to re-educate yourself.
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Posted February 4th, 2009
Great news that the National Grid is getting squarely behind biogas generation – and has told the Government so. Putting our food and other waste into energy production seems such good common sense. There are farms with anaerobic digesters on them now, as well as the big industrial-scale plants that can take huge volumes of…
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Posted January 8th, 2009
Some depressing news reported by the Theatre of Inconveniences blog about Kenya taking rapid steps towards a genetically modified farming future. Quite how they think this will be of benefit to the country is anyone’s guess, but the arguments are pretty well fleshed out in the blog posting, which I’d recommend you read.
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Posted December 17th, 2008
Just stumbled across this piece about electric bikes becoming available to hire in the beautiful Stretton Hills (just down the road from our base in Shrewsbury). Seems like a very civilised way to get around a beauty spot. More civilised certainly than the noisy combustion engine. Of course electric vehicles still need fossil fuels to…
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Posted December 1st, 2008
A piece in Farmers Guardian quotes a Monsanto spokesman’s belief that GM crops will be coming to the UK soon. While it’s hard to be sure what the government is plotting as a result of well-funded lobbying, this does smack of wishful thinking or a strategy of making it sound like a fait-accompli in the…
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