The devil at the door

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 5:55 PM | add or read comments (0)

IN THE darker corners of the forest stood a small wooden building surrounded by the whites of prying eyes.

Were small children to stray too near, they'd be impaled on pearlescent tusks and reduced to bony piles by their ravenous owners.

Bloody hell.

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Attack of the collie-wobbles

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A SURPRISE awaited me when I arrived home this week.

Not dinner - life was never that kind - but a large hairy Collie, its coat still caked with farm mud.

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Ways to beat the tractor thieves

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 3:45 PM | add or read comments (0)

YOU have to sympathise with Richard Clegg, NFU county chairman for Cheshire: returning to his farm after an evening function, he discovered thieves had half-inched his pride and joy, a brand new Deutz Fahr tractor.

Ever since he’s been looking for ways to increase security on his farm. But it’s not easy: tractors, normally worth £30,000 or more, are easier to nick than 1983 Austin Maestro and, dare I say it, marginally more desirable too.

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When farming is its own worst enemy

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ONE OF life’s certainties is the ability of the UK farming sector to shoot itself in the foot.

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Butt too painful or just super-sized?

• Posted by Andrew Forgrave at 5:26 PM | add or read comments (0)

EXPRESSIONS of concern, some of them sincere, have been pouring in for my battered and bruised wife, who is still nurturing a painful posterior following her unexpected encounter with an unruly sheep.

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