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Nuffield conference snapshot

Nuffield conference snapshot

The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trusts annual conference was held this year in Belfast. I was up for the Steven and Gillian Bullock Award – for the scholar who has done most with their award ten years on, but it was also a great way to check up on the exploits of...
Maintaining a resilient dairy business

Maintaining a resilient dairy business

It was great to see Paul Bird the other day, the first New Zealand grassland consultant to set up discussion groups here, and encouraging dairy farmers to stop using feeder wagons and produce more milk from grazed grass. Paul started in 1997. He just happened to be...
Death of grass = the end of civilisation?

Death of grass = the end of civilisation?

Imagine if all plants of the Gramineae (or Poaceae) family in the world turned brown, rotted and died, falling victim to a virus that scientists failed to curb. No wheat, barley, rice or maize, no grass for grazing so no cattle or sheep – just potatoes, vegetables and...

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