Tuesday, 26
The Penny Drops!

It was back in early 1999 that the idea of the UKagriculture.com website was first developed. Its purpose; educating and explaining agriculture so that the public could have confidence in the industry and its role in the countryside. From modest beginnings in those early years the site has grown consistently, focussing on “farming and the countryside, what’s going on and why”. I therefore welcome the NFU’s campaigning activities that for 2007 will be directed towards a single key objective: “to explain to consumers, opinion-formers and politicians - Why Farming Matters.”

Wednesday, 6
RPA gets its act together.

At last! Four months after I submitted my SPS forms the RPA have been able to confirm their safe receipt. Quite why it takes the RPA this long to tear off the slip of paper and return it to the sender (when it was designed for exactly such purpose) escapes obvious explanation.

Hare of the barley

We are used to the mad antics of hares in March but their recent behaviour has been bizarre. This leveret, completely unconcerned by my presence, was comfortably at home on the spring barley. Any explanation?