13th October 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Scrum down
It’s been a slow start to this autumn’s drilling campaign on account of a long and impatient wait for rain. Having said that I know that for others this autumn has been more the case…
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21st August 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Water torture
When, in a wet summer, you’re harvesting crops that suffered from a spring drought, it’s difficult to not think there’s a vindictive weather god in charge, or that you must have done something very wrong in…
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24th July 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Over-twittered harvest yields
As the dust starts to fly and combines get into the thick of harvest 2023, its time for a re-fresher on the rules of Pub yields – now, more modernly, known as the rules of…
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30th June 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Half right, half wrong
When it comes to making decisions, I suffer from the ‘half-right, half wrong’ school of farming. By way of example, last autumn I couldn’t decide whether to spray the rather expensive Luximo (cinmethylin) herbicide or…
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18th May 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Wide-eyed at Wild Isles
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18th April 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: The milling wheat casino
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13th March 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Regime change
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13th February 2023
Smith’s Soapbox: Would you credit it?
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8th December 2022
Smith’s Soapbox: The drudgery and disaster of olde farming ways
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17th October 2022
Smith’s Soapbox: Of mice and men
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13th September 2022
Smith’s Soapbox: Government – both big and small