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Shaking off the winter blues
Columnist Dani Darke returns to her keyboard with observations of spring on the family’s Aria sheep and beef farm.
Surgeons take charge of The Boss
When The Boss ran out of puff, The Chief Inspector booked him into hospital. Charlotte Rietveld plays nursemaid.
The realities of farming
For Gaye Coates and husband Murray the end of winter has allowed them to focus on the ‘doing’ part of farming.
Beauty treatment down the drain
Following a Code Brown alert, Paul Burt spends a day on the tools before admitting defeat and calling a plumber.
Oh, the hypocrisy
Mark Chamberlain seeks a translation for one of his cooperative’s box-ticking exercises.
Niche operator
Robert Hodgkins has found a niche on his Hertfordshire farm in England selling the Romneys to arable farmers as a means to control blackgrass and increase soil fertility.
After the dry, the deluge
Fickle weather has been a challenge for Roger Barton setting up for the new season.
Life is mud and a masseuse
With a mild but very wet winter there’s been a lot of mud and massage for Suzie Corboy in the Catlins.
Trees pressure land market
Life is starting to return to something resembling normal in Scotland following the most recent Covid-19 lockdown, John Scott writes.