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FARMA 2010: Top tips from the workshops
A round up from the various workshops and seminars at the annual FARMA conference.
FARMA 2010: Food service has 'great potential'
CONSIDERABLE potential for foodservice meals must be acknowledged, but price, presentation, and the offering has to be accessible.
In Your Field
John Walton: Making new friends but lagging behind in the Single Payment stakes
The start of a new year, indeed the start of a new decade, what better time for a bit of wishful thinking and unadulterated optimism?
John Davies: The ski’s the limit after scanning reveals a few empty ewes
Like many others, we began the year with Merthyr Cynog more like an Austrian village than a Welsh one.
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Steve Heard: Weather puts pests and disease on ice
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John Gordon: A collapsed roof due to snow, hungry ewes and impending TB tests
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It's hard to be optimistic about food security
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John Davies: Climate change is very likely to dominate our thoughts over the coming decade
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Rodney Down: Reflecting on good dairy contract decisions
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Rodney Down: Is this the year farming can capture the affections of the nation?
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Dominic Naylor: Christmas shut down even spread to the cubicle and parlour equipment
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John Walton: Though the DFB legacy is still raw, we look forward to a pivotal year ahead
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Steve Heard: Time to tackle the annual maintenance schedule
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John Gordon: SFP raises a smile and a new mixer ‘should’ bring a trouble-free Christmas
Working dogs
Home-reared Spot clinches Emma’s first championship
Emma Gray won her first championship title on Sunday when she took the Northumberland League nursery championship with Spot, while the trial winners were Geoff Pringle and Mist.
Recipe of the week
Cooking up a farmhouse treat this Christmas
MEET our new cookery expert, farmer’s wife Helen Colley as she shares her fool-proof recipes for the perfect Christmas treats.
Recipe: Quick shortbread
It is not often that I give away my top secret recipes, but this one I will share with you.
Recipe: Honeyed Sausages
This recipe has been used by me for the past 15 years and is still as popular today as it was then.