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Perspectives on conservation, land management and investing in agriculture from farmers across the globe
Just before Christmas I attended the funeral of my old housemaster, Forbes Wastie. A man I adored, he also taught biology and in later life was Chair of the local magistrate’s bench. Boyishly, I could seldom resist asking him how that role, “Chair of the bench”, was going. An anecdote told in...
Originally published July 2021. Among the many quotes attributed to Einstein, the following seems most pertinent as we look to the future: ‘'The significant challenges we face...
What farmers can do to prevent it. Originally published August 2021. Farm vehicles have long been considered an easy target for thieves because of poor security measures, such as...
A tribute to the American biologist, naturalist andwriter Edward Osborne Wilson. Originally published June 2022. On Boxing Day, 2021, the world lost one of its greatest...
Originally published December 2021. How uninvited guests can bring unexpected delights Farmers are apt to rail against uninvited people on their land. I am no exception, yet...
Originally published April 2022. Land prices should now out-perform other asset classes, especially when compared to their underperformance during the previous period of...
Land prices should now outperform other asset classes, especially when compared to their underperformance during the previous period of deflation, argues this writer. In November...
US dollar food commodity prices have risen 40% since the onset of Covid-19 in March 2020. This sharp price jump, shown in the graph below, has reversed a painful period of farm...
Policy change is creating opportunities and challenges for farmers across the UK As if the challenges created by our exit from the EU and the pandemic were not enough, the...
This article was originally published in February 2018. In this commentary I review the years since my return to the family industry (the most recent of them managing third party...