Are the best of intentions causing the decline of our rural towns and villages?
It's a few days after Paul Costelloe's London Fashion Week show and the veteran designer is basking in the glow that comes when the cool kids are still wearing your clothes.
When it comes to protecting the future wellbeing of farm families, succession planning is vital.
My smartphone guidance system plans the shortest distance between two points, taking me on roads less travelled through towns and villages I have only seen on signposts and maps.
Whatever the outcome of the beef protests, there can be no doubt that many farmers will be very reluctant to buy calves next spring for calf to beef systems. The reality is that 2019 beef prices have sent a strong message to farmers that calf to beef is a complete loss making disaster.
Why would bachelor farmers with no successors continue to fwork difficult hill farms, even when it is uneconomical to do so?
It's a few days after Paul Costelloe's London Fashion Week show and the veteran designer is basking in the glow that comes when the cool kids are still wearing your clothes.
