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	<description>Can you live and work in the country today.</description>
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		<title>Foot and Mouth 2001</title>
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We could see the disease creeping nearer as each farm succumbed. It started at the head of the valley where rumour fed on rumour concerning some sheep bought from a concerning part of the country that had connections with foot and mouth and were moved to gain from this areas close proximity to Birmingham and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/08/14/17/</link>
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		<title>Foot &#038; Mouth 67</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foot and Mouth 1967
 
Foot and mouth seems to have been an ever present sore all my farming life. It started way back in 1967 when I was at Walford Agricultural College.  All the new students arrived in late September for the start of the term and we had all just about started to settle down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/08/06/foot-mouth-67/</link>
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		<title>Another wet day in August</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August 6th 1982
 
Heavy rain and thunder last night causing another No6 wire to break in the hop yard. The hopyard is like a giant cats cradle. Heavy gauge wires stretch  across the  area of hop roots at a height of 16 feet, held up by a succession of straight pine or chestnut poles. Across and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/08/06/another-wet-day-in-august/</link>
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		<title>Flattened Toes in  July 1975</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flattened Toes.
 Hot day after the blustery heavy showers of the last few days. Could do with some fine weather to finish making hay. I have also got to find the time to drench last summer’s calves. This is a  horrible job involving  catching each animal and drenching it with, to the animals taste, foul liquid. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/07/28/flattened-toes/</link>
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		<title>Cloudless days 34 years ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have kept a farm diary for the last 35 years, and it can be very interesting looking back. In fact it seems like another world.
Farming was very different then, and the format of farming was different. I see that on that Friday, July 27  1973 ,I  was blackcurrant picking having got an annual contract with the makers of Ribena. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/07/27/cloudless-days-34-years-ago/</link>
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		<title>Another Rainy Day in July on the Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it rains again. Twenty years ago this week Jeffrey Archer had just won half a million pounds and costs of up to 1 million against a London paper. I&#8217;m afraid that the flood losses to farming alone is going to come to that sum many many times over. In my valley alone the losses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/07/26/july-26th-2007/</link>
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		<title>Organic Farming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more and more people interested to know where their food is coming from, and all the public scares we&#8217;ve had with the increasing number of chemicals being put in our food and the health consequences, Organic Farming is bound to be on the increase. It&#8217;s a huge and i&#8217;m sure very competative market, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/01/15/organic-farming/</link>
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		<title>Poplar Trees and Free Range Hens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poplar Trees could be a great alternative crop and provide a long term return. There are also grants available for planting the trees and then on-going payments for the first 10 years. You can either apply directly with The Department for Food and Rural Affairs, or you can go through a company who specialises in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmdiary.co.uk/2007/01/15/popular-trees-and-freerange-chickens/</link>
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