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April 25, 2007
GM ptotesters are a bunch of potato heads
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 5:56 PM | add or read comments (0)
THEY were all poised for action, some hoisting placards, other dressed as Mr Potato Head. The 200 anti-GM protesters, a mixture of the earnest and the cynical, noisily descended on a farm near Hull, determined to render its field unsuitable for a Government GM potato trial.
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April 25, 2007
How do you convert water into milk at a four-fold loss? Become a dairy farmer
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 1:37 PM | add or read comments (0)
NOTHING sums up the surreal world of modern farming more than the economics of dairy farming.
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April 17, 2007
"We've lost your laptop" - my Tesco nightmare
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 12:09 PM | add or read comments (0)
HURRAH for Tesco. It’s making even more money out of us than ever before. The more we complain, the larger its profits.
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April 10, 2007
Robin reliant on farmer
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 6:22 PM | add or read comments (0)
HOT ON the heels of yesterday’s wagtail missive comes another strange-but-true tale involving a plucky little bird.
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April 9, 2007
The birds and the bees
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:05 PM | add or read comments (0)
SPRING is in the air and at long last a bluetit has begun nesting on a box I made from an RSPB design.
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April 2, 2007
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century
- Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 7:20 PM | add or read comments (0)
LLANDUDNO, what can I say? It’s a great town, providing you don’t have to join the daily cat-and-mouse scramble for a car parking spot.
Somewhat reluctantly I had been persuaded to attend a conference in the town organised by the Countryside Council for Wales.
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