April 29, 2022
Lots of enthusiasm
Fresh back from a quick tour of Scotland with lots of enthusiasm for farming in Sussex!
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April 28, 2022
Almost there
From what I hear, many other producers have had a relatively quick and easy lambing this year.
April 28, 2022
Impossible to know whether growers face a viable future
A big problem, of course, is that the UK is no longer the industrial powerhouse it once was.
April 28, 2022
Unknown unknowns
World buyers are now cutting deals with alternative exporters for all commodities.
April 27, 2022
Nit-picking in the extreme
Our experience of obtaining planning consent proved tricky.
April 27, 2022
Farmer time
The majority of children didn’t understand that beef came from cows and that some parts of a cow were used in the making of beefburgers that they had for tea.
March 31, 2022
Good vibrations
The UK soft fruit industry faces several challenges.
March 31, 2022
The world is going mad
We are in the process of offering accommodation to a family of Ukrainian refugees.
March 30, 2022
Financial rollercoaster
Just how many of us have the nerve, stamina and financial wherewithal to keep producing crops under these current hyper-inflationary trading conditions, only time will tell.
March 30, 2022
Hard to see who can fill the Russia and Ukraine deficit
The whole world knows now, if it didn’t before, just how much wheat, maize, barley and sunflower seed is supplied from Russia and Ukraine.
March 29, 2022
Subsidised inaction
There are many operators who seem unable to resist possible long term ‘subsidised inaction’.
