Blog Index
Welcome to our official Farmers Weekly bloggers index page!
Below is the list of FWi's official bloggers including their latest two posts. Click on the blue headlines if you want to read on or comment:
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Users of this site can also have their own blogs on our farming community area FWiSpace. Take a look and if you would like a blog of your own, email Farmers Weekly community editor Isabel Davies. |
JANE KING'S BLOG Farmers Weekly Group editor Jane King blogs about what we do at Farmers Weekly and why we do it…
Latest from Jane's blog...
Latest from Matthew's blog...
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Dreaming of a Giant Bed - Mouth of the Wash
Another thought (which tells you how I have developed a nesting instinct over the holiday) has just occured to me while I was changing the bed linen. I just became trapped inside an inside out duvet cover and spent a few... |
Mortarfied - Mouth of the Wash
Here's some good news for 2009. British scientists at Imperial College have discovered a concrete formulation, based on magnesium silicates, which absorbs CO2 as it hardens. The manufacture of cement currently emits more carbon than the aviation industry. We have laid... |
FIELD DAY
Farm Life editor Tim Relf's quirky take on our weird, wild and wonderful countryside
Latest from Tim's blog...
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Is that a winkle on the beach? (Field Day)
Warning: Don't click through to the rest of this blog post if you're offended by the sight of naked flesh. Now that's got the boring, worthy warning out of the way, here's the fun bit. The photo below made me... |
Pussy footing about (Field Day)
More big cat news - a sighting by Forestry Commission officials and an article about the Eurasian Lymx in the Sunday Sun. If you're interested in the topic, here's my account (and video) of the big cat hunt I went... |
Farmers Weekly columnist David Richardson blogs on rural life in the UK
Latest from David's blog...
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HAPPY DEW YEAR (David's Digest)
I was deterbined, despite the fact that by dose is streabing and by head feels like its going to explode, to wish you the compliments of the season. This virus hit be over the weekend and I have beed suffering ever... |
ORGANIC CREDIBILITY SHOT TO PIECES (David's Digest)
Some of my best friends are organic farmers. I enjoy their company and relish our debates on their lifestyle choices but I don't agree with them. Nevertheless I have always respected their right to farm the way they do and have... |
Farmers Weekly's Jonathan Long and Chrissie Lawrence blog on the livestock industry in the UK.
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Skipton show old season lambs hit £88/head (Taking Stock)
Prime lambs were first to enter the competition fold, as Skipton Auction Mart staged its opening show of 2009 yesterday - a day which kick-started the New Year in good style, with sheep prices well up on the final sale... |
Hoggets reach £84/head at St Boswells (Taking Stock)
With talk abounding of the £100 hoggett this spring vendors at St Boswells are well on the way there already with a top price of £84 achieved at the market yesterday for Texels from Messrs Dunlop, Emscleugh, Dunbar. A raft... |
YEAR OF FOOD AND FARMING
Tony Cooke, programme director of the Year of Food and Farming, blogs on the latest developments
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Kids connect
Set up in conjunction with our Kids Connect campaign launched on 2 July 2007. you can read regular updates from our four young bloggers on why they love living in the countryside.
Simon Robinson's Big Biofuel blog
Comment and feedback in the biofuels arena