Category: Farming

I’ve been to the launch of the latest State of Nature report. To the extent that such a depressing document can be fun, it was fun. But it was certainly interesting. The wildlife NGOs managed to entice the new Secretary of State for E, F and RA to the event to make a speech and…

Everyone says that the redesign of agriculture policy post-Brexit is a big opportunity. And so it is. You can make this as complicated as you like, and it is complicated in reality, but let’s start by making it simple whilst not losing the gist of what it’s all about. Currently we taxpayers ‘invest’ £3,000,000,000 per…

Although we are rarely going to agree on things (although we do agree on Fineshade Wood) I cannot help myself being impressed by the energy of my young, new and shiny MP, Mr Pursglove. This morning I received a letter in the post replying to my email to him of just yesterday!  Mr Pursglove says…

Further to my earlier blog about hedge-cutting dates – it seems that I was foolish not to follow my erstwhile rule of thumb which is that if the NFU says something then it is likely to be wrong. My attention has been drawn (by my olders and betters – though not by the author of…

The NFU is lobbying hard to be able to cut hedgerows a month earlier than is currently allowed.  This is being billed as an unfair restriction on farmers imposed because of EU legislation.  I’m not quite sure about that – do any readers of this blog know whether that is actually true? Is this the…