Farming goes to the classroom

AN updated teaching resource about British farming has been launched by the Women's Food and Farming Union and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority.

Tsunami offers surprise bonus

IN early September we enjoyed a week in Sardinia and learnt a little about their agriculture.

	Record entry for ploughing match
	A RECORD entry of over 80 ploughmen from across Dorset and beyond attended the annual joint Wareham and Purbeck Young Farmers' Club and Purbeck Vintage Ploughing Committee's ploughing match held by permission of Mr John Aplin, of Chamberlaynes, Bere Regis.

	Meeting highlights problems
	MAJOR changes at the top were approved of at the Exmoor Society's recent annual meeting with the election of a new president and vice-chairman.

	‘Just ask’ where your food is from
	FROM Cornish pasties to Devonshire cream teas, it can sometimes seem that every hotel, B and B and restaurant in the South West is using local produce to attract the passing tourist, writes CLA president David Fursdon.

	Best sausage in the land
	BRIAN Etherington Meat Co Ltd of Redruth beat stiff competition to take first place in the Best Volume Produced Sausage category, in the prestigious 2007 Foodservice Sausage of the Year competition. The company picked up the much coveted title for their "Cornish Premier Gold" sausage.

	Devoted farmer dies
	CHRIS May, dairy farmer and former South West Farmer of the Year has died at Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire.

	Two new faces on Cornwall Farmers board
	CORNWALL Farmers, the 4,000-strong co-operative, has appointed two new directors to lead and support the organisation's continuing expansion.

	Devon man in national role
	FOR the first time in the Holstein Society's almost 100-year history, a Devon man has been elected national president.

	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.

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