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Jul 26, 20248 min read
Will Land Prices Kill Family Farms in Europe? Farmers are In Court Over Land, and 1994 Personality Changes in Zimbabwe Commercial Agriculture Leadership.
A couple of weeks ago, following our visit to our friends the Pichards in the Alentejo and visiting a beautiful property owned by an...
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Jul 19, 20248 min read
I Did It Before Someone Else Did. Research and Extension and ‘The Farmer’ Magazine.
I only had a visit to the local clinic this week for a dressing change, and hopefully, next week, I will have a free week before...
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Jul 12, 20248 min read
My Non-Fishing Fishing Trip. The Importance of Integrity When in Office.
I am writing this in my hotel room at 10 am on Monday, overlooking the marina at Olhão. We booked a Bluefin Tuna fishing trip last year...
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Jul 5, 20248 min read
Unanswered Questions and Some of the Tasks in My Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) Role.
Following my writing, Angus Selby answered some of the legal issues around the proposed Farmers Compensation Agreement (FCA) and,...
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Jun 28, 20247 min read
Yet Another Hospital Stay, Good News and Congratulations and Good Luck to the New ARAC Board
This blog will be short as I am still confined to my hospital bed. It is now Wednesday, and while I’m sure I may get out before Friday,...
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Jun 21, 20246 min read
I Would Rather Be Fishing.
I am starting to write this before I go to the hospital, as I may not have access to my computer before the normal publication time on...
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Jun 14, 202410 min read
Reminisces and Commercial Farmers Union (CFU). Invited to Participate in New Blackfordby and Notice of Further Stomach Cancer Surgery.
As always, when I touch on the compensation issue for the farmers who got their farms confiscated in Zimbabwe in my blog, I always get...
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Jun 7, 20248 min read
Frustration in Trying to Achieve A Common Goal and An Enjoyable but Wasted Trip to The World Economic Forum in Cape Town in 1994.
Just to let you know, I wrote this blog before I received the update from the Compensation Round Table Group on Thursday. I thank them...
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May 31, 20249 min read
Relocation, Restructuring and Agrichange.
I have been a bachelor this past week or so as Rozanne had to go to Edinburgh to sort out some family business matters. How things...
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May 24, 20246 min read
Correction and Shenanigans, Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) and Land Matters 1994.
Following last week's blog, Tim Henwood, president of the CFU from 1999 to 2001, who is now a resident in Australia, corrected me on the...
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May 17, 20246 min read
Sad Week, Goodbye Nick, Nick and Gavin.
Every now and again, you have weeks with little cheer. Last week, in my joyful oblivion, while visiting farms with friends in the...
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May 10, 20246 min read
Combatting the Descent into Depression and The Start of 1994.
I was texting an old friend, Beth Bedford, who, in her past life, was an English teacher before becoming a very successful cattle farmer...
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May 3, 20246 min read
Ignore Your Constituents At Your Peril. The ZIG and Carnation Revolution Festivities and a Trip to the Alentejo.
In the past two weeks, we have seen a change in leadership in Scotland and so I am informed the formal withdrawal of the Commercial...
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Apr 26, 202411 min read
Animal Encounters.
My youngest daughter, Janine, who resides in the United States and edits my blog, suggested as a blog subject, ‘Animal Encounters’. She...
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Apr 19, 20248 min read
Sun and Pig. Cold Switzerland, Chilly Chicago and the End of 1993.
Sun and Pig. It is funny, but when the chilly rainy weather disappears and the sun comes out, all our spirits are lifted. At a wild boar...
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