by Sara Gregson | Jan 22, 2013 | Farming & Food
Nearly three months after the ‘Pasture to Profit’ conference in Worcester I still keep thinking about Neil Grigg and Tom Foot’s entertaining double act, as they recalled their ‘incredible journey’ so far setting up a milk production business from nothing. This article...
by Sara Gregson | Jan 14, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
Air accidents caused by wild birds cause an estimated 3billion $US of damage worldwide each year, and in the worst cases can bring planes down. Indeed the incredible emergency landing on the Hudson River in New York in 2009 was precipitated by bird-strike. The problem...
by Sara Gregson | Jan 2, 2013 | Farming & Food
I am hanging up my Christmas present today: a gorgeous original painting from Lauren Terry of Lauren’s Cows – www.laurenscows.com I stumbled upon this bright and lively bovine collection while messing about on Twitter. A quick view on the website and twenty minutes...
by Sara Gregson | Dec 11, 2012 | Farming & Food
The winter issue of the British Grassland Society (BGS) magazine Grass & Forage Farmer has just been published – the 111th issue since its re-launch in 1977 as Grass Farmer. The ‘Forage’ bit was added in 2005 to acknowledge the contribution crops like legumes,...
by Sara Gregson | Nov 15, 2012 | Farming & Food
At a recent workshop run by the Advanced Training Partnership (ATP), which is currently delivering postgraduate distance learning for people working in the agri-food industry (www.atp-pasture.org.uk), Dr.Iwan Owen of IBERS gave a great précis of UK grassland farming....
