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It’s the time of year when survey results seem to drop into my inbox with increasing speed and most of them probably as a result… Read More »Inspiring the Next Generation

With harvest 2018 complete, the grain is in store and already new crops are in the ground and ready to face the worst that winter… Read More »Farming North – Brexit and Mental Health

The 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… Read More »Agricultural Census Reveals More Trouble Ahead for Scotgov

How can two spring seasons be so different? That question must have been asked thousands of times, and not just by farmers this past March… Read More »A Farmer’s Headache – Managing Changing Seasons and Brexit

I’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… Read More »The Circle of Countryside Life

It was a strange moment as I hung up my headphones for the last time in Studio A at MFR last week … after all… Read More »Fast Changing Farming Scene

Sitting in my non air-conditioned office as I write this, it is hard to escape the facts that once again the food production cycle comes… Read More »Drought and Food Shortages

This year Me and Mrs. Jones (there’s a song in there – somewhere!) took advantage of the new scheduled flights from Inverness to Bergen and… Read More »The Norwegian Model for Scottish Farming

The sun shone and over the four days from 21st to 24th June a crowd of nearly 200,000 visitors went through the turnstiles at The… Read More »RHS and FJA Educating Schoolchildren with the value of food

So after a few false starts, we are finally getting into some proper negotiations about life after Europe. As the UK packs its bags ready… Read More »What will you be eating after March 2019?