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.../ From Richard Styles, Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK...
...Being a farmer I find this very useful when buying and selling grain. But no wonder children are put off. We have a Soviet-style system of teaching where there is the prescribed way, and nothing else....
...Richard Hackett, an agricultural consultant, noted scientists were attributing longer dry spells and longer wet spells to the impact of the warming planet....
...“It’s not exactly easy to be a farmer in Iceland”, so why are they discussing the planting of corn? Richard Allaway, International School of Geneva/geographyalltheway.com...
...As a 75-year-old, I fully agree with Richard Styles’ letter about maths (“A farmer makes the case for teaching Pythagoras”, December 30), but wonder about his dismissal of algebra....
...We're really increasing payments to farmers on those lowland peat areas to raise the water table in those areas....
...All of this is putting farmers under pressure. Some farmers feel that they're under attack. Do you think that's fair?...
...As a veteran reader of the FT, I agree with Richard Styles (“A farmer makes the case for teaching Pythagoras”, Letters, December 30) about the usefulness of Pythagoras....
...Thing is, it’s possible to argue that companies like Apple and Farmer Mac extract some advantage from being domiciled in the same state as they’re incorporated....
...and China play for high stakes Productivity, smartphones and the crisis of attention Diesel taxes Agriculture and trade after Brexit Monetary policy uncertainty Natural monopolies and regulation Richard...
...As the North Yorkshire-raised daughter of a lawyer father and rare breed-farmer mother, she brings fresh eyes to the business of castle stewardship....
...If the herd size fell to 6.5mn, emissions could fall still further, to 16.4mn tonnes, Richards said....
...The Tories duck the issue (or just make political statements that smokescreen the awful data) because it is ultimately Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal which is responsible for the mess, as salmon farmers...
...The restaurant was opened in 2012 by former punk musician Shira Blustein, whose team, including head chef Matt Gostelow (who hails from London), focuses on local farmers, foragers and wineries with great...
...Richard Bunting reckons 8-10 acres is the maximum plot you can take on without a heavy effort....
...Like the old guilds, many centre on professions: Soho House and the Groucho are for media and creatives; the Farmers Club in London is for farmers, the grander sort; the In & Out for the military; society...
...But a list of desirable outcomes, as Richard Rumelt, a professor at the University of California, has written, is not a strategy....
...But today and tomorrow in Oslo, Nato foreign ministers will confront head-on a topic where they are deeply divided: how soon they can promise Ukraine a road map to join the alliance, writes Richard Milne...
...Richard Griffiths, chief executive of the British Poultry Council, an industry body, says the financial burden was not being passed on to the marketplace....
...As I swam last November, from the end of the pool you could see in the distance lines of rice farmers carefully transplanting the young seedlings....
...It has also announced increased grants to farmers to help reduce run-off into rivers, including £200mn to improve slurry storage....
...In 1811, the Reverend Richard Bingham tried to plant the blame for unsigned and incendiary letters upon local “foresters” after he himself burnt down the rectory he’d recently insured for a tidy sum....
...“Farmers designed the dog and you wouldn’t go within 10 feet of it. They’d kill you. They took shit from no one,” Arthur says....
...Rising fertiliser prices mean farmers use less of them, which means lower yields and higher inflation....
...Around the open-air ring, beneath a Peruvian flag, groups of indigenous farmers stand bidding, hats shielding them from the harsh sun....
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