I slid in a couple of letters to The Times – one on farmers working together for wildlife and another on gamekeepers helping scientists remove stoats from Orkney
Turning the heat up in Farmer Weekly’s letters pages – one on guts for garters about open dialogue and another wondering why New Zealand is always held up as the poster boy of post-Brexit farming without blemish
I’ve appeared on a spate of panels - at a CLA event at the Royal Welsh, at Confor’s woodland show and the Game Fair.
An opinion piece for the Heather Trust’s annual review touches on matters that cross over between all three discussions about working better together while being acute to the trade-offs and open to the synergies out there.
A guest blog earlier this year from an expert birder and farmer - Andy Roberts - brings some tough issues, oft unspoken about issues, to the fore about wildlife and necessary farming practices.
Last month I walked on the hill with National Trust Wales wardens to brief them from an ‘outsiders’ contextualised view of some upland countryside issues.
Next weekend I’m chairing a Defra sponsored event with young farmers and naturalists at which I aim to create an atmosphere of openness so we can all learn from each other without fear of judgement or be curtailed by tribal instincts
