Schoffel

So, the unofficial Young Farmers Rally weekend in Blackpool has been and gone. Dropping the youngest member of our team and a carload of his mates off at York station Friday morning. We were greeted at the last set of traffic lights with an ambulance at full trot, all lights and siren ablaze. This prompted a few fatherly words of advice to the carload of 21-year-old lads, like; make sure you stay...
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Hindsight 2

Over a month has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. UK wheat has traded at the farm gate within a range of £300-£310 per tonne. The daily movement within this range dependant on the over night news of peace talks or further attacks. At the time of writing on Tuesday morning the price of April/May 2022 wheat in Yorkshire has overnight jumped £5.00 per tonne and broken out of...
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Hindsight

So, Mr Putin’s insistence in February that his red army and teenage conscripts were engaged in nothing more than military drills on the Ukrainian border turned out to be nothing more than lies and utter b*****ks. Early March saw the invasion on Ukraine by Russian troops begin in earnest. Did we really believe that 130,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border was a training exercise? Back in...
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