Farming North – Brexit and Mental Health
With harvest 2018 complete, the grain is in store and already new crops are in the ground and ready to face the worst that winter… Read More »Farming North – Brexit and Mental Health
With harvest 2018 complete, the grain is in store and already new crops are in the ground and ready to face the worst that winter… Read More »Farming North – Brexit and Mental Health
The 2018 agricultural census was published in October and given the weather we’ve suffered over the past 12 months, the figures confirmed what most of… Read More »Agricultural Census Reveals More Trouble Ahead for Scotgov
How can two spring seasons be so different? That question must have been asked thousands of times, and not just by farmers this past March… Read More »A Farmer’s Headache – Managing Changing Seasons and Brexit
I’ve spent some time speaking to our Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Fergus Ewing at the various agricultural shows this summer and one topic that came… Read More »The Circle of Countryside Life
It was a strange moment as I hung up my headphones for the last time in Studio A at MFR last week … after all… Read More »Fast Changing Farming Scene
Sitting in my non air-conditioned office as I write this, it is hard to escape the facts that once again the food production cycle comes… Read More »Drought and Food Shortages
This year Me and Mrs. Jones (there’s a song in there – somewhere!) took advantage of the new scheduled flights from Inverness to Bergen and… Read More »The Norwegian Model for Scottish Farming
The sun shone and over the four days from 21st to 24th June a crowd of nearly 200,000 visitors went through the turnstiles at The… Read More »RHS and FJA Educating Schoolchildren with the value of food
So after a few false starts, we are finally getting into some proper negotiations about life after Europe. As the UK packs its bags ready… Read More »What will you be eating after March 2019?
“Top Tory MEP Daniel Hannan tells people to stop moaning about Chlorinated Chicken” That’s one of the most deeply disturbing headlines I’ve come across for… Read More »The truth about chlorinated chicken