Family's 100 years of making cheese
	ANTHONY, Richard, Nigel and Patrick Villis are celebrating their family's 100th year of cheesemaking at award-winning Cricketer Farm.

Endangered species

"THE future of the British Countryside" was the title of an excellent meeting held by Women Working Together, ie WFU, WI and TG on September 11 in a packed Clyst St Mary village hall. We had an interesting and thought provoking day.

	Support programme helps farms diversify
	FARMERS and land based businesses in North Devon, Torridge and West Devon can improve their businesses performance by tapping into a support programme run by Business Link Devon and Cornwall.

Student wins praise

THOMAS Buckley, from Shirwell, near Barnstaple, who is a final year student at Shropshire-based Harper Adams University College, has been highly commended in the 2007 Farmplanner of the Year Award.

	Black turns to gold for Wilfred
	THE Black Farmer has yet again been voted a winner. This time the brand, created by Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, better known as The Black Farmer, has scooped "Best Poultry Product 2007" at the annual SuperMeat Awards for its Ultimate Roasting Chicken - the only branded product to receive an award in a host of categories dominated by supermarket own label products.

	Ice cream ... and more!
	A WELL-KNOWN family run dairy business on The Lizard, Cornwall, is expanding rapidly supported by several strands of Objective One investment.

	Keeping the "birds" happy
	ALAN Evans, the Clarence Court farm manager at Tremayne farm near Camborne, Cornwall, has retired after a staggering 50 years of working with laying hens.

	The "oil" that's undervalued
	THE NFU recently launched a campaign in which they said: "Look to the countryside to see how it can give you the career of your dreams."

	Book available in new edition
	THE Goatkeeper's Veterinary Book, which has served as the standard reference work for a full generation of goatkeepers is now available in a new edition.

Stores push farmers aside

I WAS amused to see the headline on a newspaper I bought the other day. "Supermarkets too powerful," it read.

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