Hints and tips:
...Here, I woke at dawn to the rattle of a quad-bike engine and the bark of dogs. Watching the farmer round up the sheep from my sleeping bag was a lovely experience....
...But I think the US is still a strategic actor, that it is not going to farm out its larger strategy to the single-issue groups....
...I found a vehicle touting itself as an alternative to the quad: the UBCO. It started life as an electric farm bike in New Zealand in 2015....
...“Some of the biggest, most efficient farms periodically go bankrupt,” he says. Farming was different when Rebanks was a kid. The tractors he’d ride around on were beaten-up and crusted with rust....
...“I was wondering if we’d ever get the opportunity to make money again. But the key in this industry is to be resilient.” What followed was a remarkable bounceback....
...This suggests the company enjoyed record profits of £3.7m, mainly through sales of organic vegetables grown at the company’s four farms and packed into 47,000 boxes a week....
...We purchased a small cottage in Shropshire last year on the edge of a farm. It was idyllic — like something out of AE Housman....
...By the end of the trip I’d have swum the Atlantic to get home. I yearned for the peace and familiar rhythms of my valley....
...It’s subjective because it comes down to what a farmer is prepared to take on but 10 to 15 miles is probably as far as you’d want to go in travelling from one block to another,” Mr Raynham says....
...Anthony Trollope’s 1862 novel Orley Farm includes a vivid description of Mr Crabwitz, the clerk to barrister Thomas Furnival....
...I’d wait and see. I’d wait a few months before betting the farm on a big change.” There are exceptions to this rule however, when industries are going through wholesale change....
...Samsung, for example, employs 250 people in R&D and according to KPMG has “aggressive growth plans”....
...be there soon after dawn, for the Azienda was a real working farm....
...I think we’d be missing something.”...
...On Friday afternoon Mr Obama also issued an order blocking a Chinese-owned company’s plan to build wind farms in Oregon, using a power last exercised 22 years ago....
...Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “The only thing to fear is fear itself”. That holds true for me. Being fearful prevented me from making timely decisions. Now, whenever I am fearful, I confront it. 7....
...He employs three people to manage the farm, which was always run as a business. “I wanted to create a mixed-use organic farm,” says Naghshineh....
...There are no roads on Tanera Mòr and, therefore, no wheeled vehicles outside a solitary quad bike....
...I’d still be slightly nervous of this one, given the high-risk nature of the exploration prospects....
...on a quad-bike or from the saddle....
...Saint Jean, Cap Ferrat, Côte d’Azur, France, €7.5m Where: 15 minutes from Nice airport and 12km from Monaco, near Villefranche-sur-Mer, in the south of France....
...“I’d like to see these kind of stipulations introduced to ensure that UK companies gain a reasonable amount of work in big contracts where the main business concerned is from overseas,” he said....
...Legislation introduced in 2007 provides 100 per cent tax relief on converting redundant farm buildings for commercial use....
...“We’d like to step in where the housebuilders were. We won’t build the houses, but we will obtain the planning consent, so the land can be built on,” Watson said....
...Last week, she was made an officer of the légion d’honneur by François Fillon, prime minister, for her services to finance....
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