Part of the #FarmerMentalHealth campaign, as well as Farmers Weekly’s #Fit2Farm campaign, is about encouraging those who are struggling with their mental health to reach out to others for help. The most difficult thing in the world can be to accept that you are facing a problem but the old cliche that a problem sharedContinueContinue reading “Online Counselling, Telehealth #FarmerMentalHealth”
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Making Farming and the Veterinary sector something we can all be involved in! – Guest post by Navaratnam Partheeban
Partheeban Navaratnam is Senior Lecturer in Livestock Production at the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester. He recently wrote an opinion piece in Farmers Weekly calling on us all to break down the ethnic barriers in farming and so I asked him to embellish on the subject on thinkingcountry. Agriculture and the veterinary profession are very importantContinueContinue reading “Making Farming and the Veterinary sector something we can all be involved in! – Guest post by Navaratnam Partheeban”
An Interview with Icelandic Sheep Farmer and Instagrammer Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík
If you have an Instagram account and have any sort of interest in the countryside or farming (as you are on thinkingcountry the latter can be assumed) you may well have heard of Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík who now has over 35,000 followers on her ‘farmlifeiceland’ page. The vast majority of her photos are of sheep asContinueContinue reading “An Interview with Icelandic Sheep Farmer and Instagrammer Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík”
The East of England Farming Conference
Last week I attended the East of England Farming Conference which was held at the East of England Showground near Peterborough. For a farming conference with such an established sounding name you might be surprised that it is only a few years old, with this event only the fourth to take place in its history.ContinueContinue reading “The East of England Farming Conference”
An Insight to Ukrainian Agriculture, present and future
You may not be aware but this week has been Ukrainian Week in London, a major initiative launched by Bate Toms, Chairman of the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (BUCC), and Yuriy Kosyuk, founder and Chairman of MHP, an agricultural company listed on the London Stock Exchange. As part of the week I attended a business event at the Savoy (Tuesday) organised by the FinanicalContinueContinue reading “An Insight to Ukrainian Agriculture, present and future”
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