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Who Pressed the World Reset Button ?Fast forward to late summer 2021 and one sunny morning we wake up and switch on the news … “The Covid-19 pandemic is officially over, all restrictions are lifted, we can go back to life as normal” Yes, I can guarantee the nightmare will be confined to the history books, but did we learn anything from this history lesson?
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Village newsThis morning as I collected my milk, eggs and newspaper from our local village store, I stopped to survey the range of vehicles and other various modes of transport in the car park … There was a farm telehandler, a huge agricultural tractor, an old fashioned long wheelbase Land Rover, a battered old pick-up truck, a couple of smaller family cars, a German and a Netherlands registered car and 2 small bikes.
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Deputy First Minister's Visit to Nairn“An Exciting Model for the Future of Education” … Deputy First Minister, John Swinney telling us personally how much he appreciates what we at The Farmer Jones Academy (FJA) are doing with our pro-active approach to delivering over 40 Foundation Apprenticeships (FA’s) in Food and Drink Technology across the Highlands.
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Groundhog DayLast weekend, in an effort to escape the troubles of the real world, we sat down and looked for an old classic film to watch and the conversation went like this… “Have you ever seen Groundhog Day?"… "No, but I’ve just seen the news and I feel like we’re living it at the moment!” In the last edition of Farming North, I was looking forward to life for farmers after Brexit.
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Agricultural Census Reveals More Trouble Ahead for ScotgovThe 2018 agricultural census was published in October and given the weather we’ve suffered over the past 12 months, the figures confirmed what most of us in agriculture had feared, with the census headline “Extreme Weather Events Hit Virtually Every Sector in Scottish Agriculture”.
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The Circle of Countryside LifeI’ve spent some time speaking to our Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Fergus Ewing at the various agricultural shows this summer and one topic that came up time after time in conversation was the fact that no less than 85% of farmland in Scotland is classified as Less Favoured Area (LFA).
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The truth about chlorinated chicken“Top Tory MEP Daniel Hannan tells people to stop moaning about Chlorinated Chicken” That’s one of the most deeply disturbing headlines I’ve come across for a long time but it doesn’t surprise me that in amongst all the arguments surrounding Brexit, the prospect of chlorinated chicken imports from the USA are hitting the headlines.
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