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January 31, 2007
Why we desperately need hydrogen-powered tractors
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:03 PM | add or read comments (0)
ALL OF a sudden Britain seems to have fallen in love with local food, farms shops and farmers markets.
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January 30, 2007
Floody hell - give me a break
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 12:11 PM | add or read comments (0)
SPOKE to Mr Angry this morning. I should have known: a colleague told me he’d been trying to reach me. “He sounds angry,” he warned.
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January 29, 2007
How I put a curse on the D Post picture editor
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 11:42 AM | add or read comments (0)
FIRSTLY, an apology. In my last entry I vented my spleen, in sober fashion I felt, at Richard Williams, Daily Post picture editor, after he pinched the office video camera.
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January 25, 2007
Anglesey's marsh-surfing mink
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:01 PM | add or read comments (0)
PICTURE editors come in various guises, but can be broadly split into two groups: those who are grumpy, unhelpful and penny-pinching; and those who are supportive, available and have a sense of humour even when you make impossible photo requests.
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January 24, 2007
Udderly desperate farmers gotta lotta bottle
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:56 PM | add or read comments (0)
IT was a job that called for great tact: how to write a story about romance-seeking farmers without making them sound desperate?
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January 23, 2007
Quacks, moos, squawks, barks, trills and cock-a-doodle-doos
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:58 PM | add or read comments (0)
ONE of this section’s bloggers is Russell Rees-Davies, who grew up on an inner city dairy farm in Liverpool, and later a mixed farm near St Asaph.
He’s a man of many talents which, after a career in agri-sales, finally found an outlet at Butlin’s in Pwllheli, where he worked as a Redcoat.
Yesterday he introduced me to one particular talent: animal mimicry.
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January 19, 2007
Clive Davies and other forestry pests
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:46 PM | add or read comments (0)
UH OH! On the other end of the phone line is Clive Davies, public relations bloke from Forestry Commission Wales. It’s 11.30am on Friday, January 19. What does he want now?
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January 18, 2007
How do you keep thieves at bay?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:27 PM | add or read comments (0)
THE mother-in-law is from Lancashire, which explains a lot.
Perhaps it’s why she obsesses over her Jacob sheep, having built a half-decent flock 10 years after being sold a one-eyed ewe and a ram with a dodgy ticker (they saw her coming!).
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January 18, 2007
Dafydd, where are you when I need you?
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:12 PM | add or read comments (0)
THOUGHT it might be fun - and perhaps instructive - to run through a few travails of Farm & County’s most recent deadline day (Wednesday, January 17).
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January 16, 2007
Hmmm, more pain please
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:55 PM | add or read comments (0)
MOST politicians would baulk at the prospect of gratuitous violence.
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January 15, 2007
Welsh paddyfields signal the end of hill farming
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:29 PM | add or read comments (0)
LAST week I revealed how the National Trust was planning to block up ditches on its land on the Migneint mountain range.
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January 15, 2007
It could only happen to a farmer
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:24 PM | add or read comments (0)
AND you thought it was just you who talked to animals?
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January 15, 2007
Bovine belches and Welsh bogs
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 2:12 PM | add or read comments (0)
AT the moment you can’t move for non-farm commentators telling farmers how they should be farming.
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