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Food is getting scarce – and could get scarcer

Writing this, the good news was that it was a beautiful sunny morning – unfortunately, the past week was the opposite, unlike how March came in, like a lamb.

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Hoping that the vaccine will let me out!

Let’s get the history over first – last year’s new record rainfall was 50.25 inches, which is 1.25 inches higher than the previous record set in 2002.
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Keeping a weather eye on world trade

Pen has gone to paper a bit earlier, due to various circumstances, not least Covid-19, plus the fact that if you are lucky with Royal Mail, you should receive this copy on the second day of the New Year!

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Through it all – supply and demand still rules

During the first half of November, the world heaved a sigh of relief on two accounts – the defeat of The Donald by Joe Biden and the expectation of a Covid-19 vaccine.

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An unholy mix of Brexit, Covid and Trump

TWO SUBJECTS dominate most conversations these days with farmers – Covid-19 and Brexit.
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We must avoid Defra's shambolic policies

DARE I mention it? I have been asked so many times this past week about my rainfall that I have to report that as of September 12, it was 36-inches, or 92cm.
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Weather disruption and market distortion!

There are some good and not so good aspects to my thoughts this month – but one which has raised many questions in the past few days, is the weather.

‘If we do not improve our consistency of our product very soon, our market will be flooded with quality foreign beef that is consistent' Jim Brown

Processors – we need a carrot rather than a stick

WE ARE now into the second half of 2020 already – and what a first half it has been!

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Beef price heading back to where it needs to be

My eldest grandson, Robert Hendrie, rang me the other day, asking me what the rainfall had been since Lockdown – now some 10 weeks ago – and I could tell him it had been the longest dry spell since July-August, 1976.

Time to play fair on beef

Time to play fair on beef

AS I pen these notes on April 25, the weather has been so fantastic that it seems like I'm in Tenerife!