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...Susie Stannard, dairy analyst at the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), an advisory body to British farmers, said falling prices were being driven by “a slight increase in global supply...
...Susie BellBeef Farmer, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK...
...Letters in response to this article: Climate change curiosity prompts this reader’s plea / From Marc Hudson, Stone, Staffordshire, UK Why farmers have a beef with climate change policy / From Susie Bell...
...The next year, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched its “Soil Your Undies” campaign, which encouraged farmers to bury cotton underwear in the ground and track how fast it broke down as a way...
...Farmers are a powerful lobby group. This is how the legislative sausage gets made. But change is coming....
...The neighbourhood has mainstays such as a weekly farmers’ market and an organic, rare-breed butcher....
...Fraser makes the fascinating point that this is still true of 91 per cent of small farmers today, who rely on “off farm” income to live....
...It’s hard to think of anything you could do worse than pay farmers to own land on a scale we are doing it. So you have to be pragmatic; this is democracy and we have to make the best of it....
...Mies Julie , her adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, which she set in South Africa’s Karoo region on Freedom Day 2012, reimagines Julie as a white farmer’s daughter and Jean as a black servant....
...susie.boyt@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/boyt...
...Andrew and Susie Carmichael run Olive Oil From Crete, selling freshly-pressed, young olive oil from their own land on the island....
...“Ideally, you need to be a dirty-handed farmer living there....
...It would be very nice to open a library of one’s own… susie.boyt@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/boyt...
...“Originally it was farmers playing with stones.”...
...William Leith is the author of ‘Bits of Me Are Falling Apart’ (Bloomsbury)Susie Boyt returns next week...
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