Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Three acres and a cow is still a recipe for poverty not 'radical agrarian populism'

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  Each generation rediscovers agrarian revolution as “…a genuine revolutionary moment in British politics.” This rejection of urban life,...
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Thursday, 11 June 2020

"There is little money, and they are desperate" - much of British farming isn't viable, you don't change this with regulation or protectionism

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And yes, I have a beef with the intensive end of my industry, with its beak-clipping, tail-docking, permanent ‘in-housing’, zero-grazing,...
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Monday, 26 August 2019

Environmental campaigners, more than any other group, are the ones living off fake news.

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 There's nothing new with what's now called fake news - in WW1 rumours of a Russian army spread : "There is being circulat...
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Saturday, 29 October 2016

Friday Fungus: Coffee and climate change

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This isn't a 'have a go a climate change' post - that the climate changes is a matter of fact, it's the causes of those chan...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016

On efficient farming (and driverless tractors)

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This really does matter (although it will cause palpitations in all the locavores, organic food nuts and pseudo-environmentalists): ...
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Friday, 9 September 2016

Friday Fungus: Meeting the farming insects...

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Ambrosia beetle farms (which you don't really want on your fig tree) There are several insects that have, over the millenia, develop...
Sunday, 24 April 2016

Free range chicken isn't healthier or more sustainable. It's just tastes better and costs more.

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I'm prepared to accept that free range chickens taste better. I also know that the way those chickens are bred means they cost a who...
Friday, 20 November 2015

Cows aren't destroying the planet. Ignorant folk like George Monbiot are.

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**** George Monbiot is having a go at cows . Well, not just cows but sheep, pigs, chickens and goats as well. And probably alpaca, yaks and ...
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Monday, 4 May 2015

Why farmers won't be voting Labour...

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**** I've commented before how without EU subsidy and the benefits system we wouldn't have much of a farming business - or at lea...
Saturday, 18 April 2015

Life on the farm...

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Catstones Moor from Tan House, Wilsden on a cold April day From where I lie The sheep can safely graze The farm breasts through the ...
Sunday, 25 May 2014

So Fairtrade may be making some Africans poorer?

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**** One of the things about studying development in poor places is that you quickly realise that it isn't as straightforward as the a...
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Monday, 9 December 2013

Tim Farron and the illusory wool boom...

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Like Tim Farron, I represent a lot of sheep (although these are now going for economic reasons to be replaced with beef cattle and horses)...
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Tuesday, 4 June 2013

More slippery slope - Tim Lang and the denormalisation of meat

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**** I think we've been here before. Professor Lang has been peddling his eco-waffle for some while, wrapping it in ethics, lies about...
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Very rich hobby farmer wants poor people to pay more for food

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**** We've known for a while that our future king is, how do we put this? Ah, yes - rather too much of a hippie for his own (and our) ...
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Sunday, 12 August 2012

Does Laura Sandys realise what she's saying about food policy?

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**** Let us take her comments : The Prime Minister is right to use the Olympics to focus on global hunger. But while the main focus of...
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