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Originally published June 2021. Our farms can be both wildlife-friendly and efficiently productive. Nirmal Purja, on completing his unique winter climb to the summit of K2, reflected that “Mother Nature always has bigger things to say”. The roar of the wind on that savage mountain would have...
A tribute to the American biologist, naturalist andwriter Edward Osborne Wilson. Originally published June 2022. On Boxing Day, 2021, the world lost one of its greatest...
Originally published December 2021. How uninvited guests can bring unexpected delights Farmers are apt to rail against uninvited people on their land. I am no exception, yet...
Originally published April 2022. Land prices should now out-perform other asset classes, especially when compared to their underperformance during the previous period of...
Land prices should now outperform other asset classes, especially when compared to their underperformance during the previous period of deflation, argues this writer. In November...
US dollar food commodity prices have risen 40% since the onset of Covid-19 in March 2020. This sharp price jump, shown in the graph below, has reversed a painful period of farm...
Policy change is creating opportunities and challenges for farmers across the UK As if the challenges created by our exit from the EU and the pandemic were not enough, the...
This article was originally published in February 2018. In this commentary I review the years since my return to the family industry (the most recent of them managing third party...
My loyal reader knows full well that I escape to southern seas for the winter months, and all winters are mere memories. Having experienced earthquakes, cyclones, fires and...
This article was originally published in Summer 2019. Farming in the UK is changing faster than anyone realises. There will be winners – and losers… The UK farming industry is...