See our farming columnists’ views beyond the agricultural news headlines. See what they make of farm policy and the big stories of the day on topics from Brexit and food security to farm subsidies and pesticide use. Matthew Naylor, Charlie Flindt and Will Evans are among our regular writers.
My after-dinner speech was going well. I had been worried that doing it before dinner – as my kind and generous hosts had insisted – would be a handicap.
I have a new best friend. He’s called Oliver, and he’s nearly three. I met him last week when I was spraying. I wasn’t actually “on the move” spraying – I
It’s the middle of January, the Quality Street tins are empty (except for the ghastly coconut ones, of course), the days are getting noticeably longer,