Gazette Herald | Farming comment from Ryedale

Good news in the battle against virus

3:35pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

SCHMALLENBERG is a miserable virus flying I unseen on the wings of venomous little midges which bite our livestock and move on, leaving the disease to appear many months later with misshapen lambs and calves.

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Crops are desperate for rain

11:02am Wednesday 8th May 2013

I WAS rather hoping by printing this dramatic headline the rain gods would listen and the heavens might open, at least for a spell to give much needed water to particularly our spring sown crops.

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Exercise your right and cast that vote

3:43pm Wednesday 1st May 2013

THE right to vote is the foundation stone of democracy and even in Britain universal suffrage did not exist until 1928, less than 100 years ago.

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Spectrum Solicitors' new venture

8:00am Wednesday 24th April 2013

A MALTON law firm has joined forces with property agents and planners to help farmers to benefit from renewable technologies.

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Waitrose bans bee pesticide

3:15pm Wednesday 17th April 2013

THERE is genuine worldwide concern over the deterioration in the health of our bees and the effect that it may have upon plant pollination.

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Woes in a wasteland

11:11am Wednesday 27th March 2013

AS I look out over the barren wasteland that used to be North Yorkshire, the prospect of venturing out to start my annual stocktakings doesn’t have its usual appeal. This note is just to remind those of you, and there will be many, who have an accounting year end looming.

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