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Came across this the other day. Apart from banning sky-lanterns and portable BBQs I think it's the sort of thing DEFRA would do well to quickly revive.

Anyone seen GUTH? It's just that he promised me three times on TFF that he would be at the Exeter Open meeting last night and I made a point of saying hello to everyone there in person but none admitted to being he or exhibited any of the personality traits he seems to have on here. I also...

This is quite interesting It's Professor Dave Goulson from Sussex University who is one of the lead academic voices who wants to ban Neonics. In the piece he seems to be of the view that neonic dressings don't have any yield benefits and farmers only use them as they don't understand what...

I'm on the trawl for any observations about flea beetle damage in Oilseed Rape. When we ( the NFU) were lobbying for the neonic derogation last spring, which was unsuccessful, we were accused of hyping up the need for neonics in establishing OSR. Now we need evidence that we weren't.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/jun/05/the-farming-lobby-has-wrecked-efforts-to-defend-our-soil Wonder what his avatar is?

This post was split from another thread to try to keep that one vaguely on topic. Let's have five bullet points as to what changes you would like to see in the NFU. I'd rather we kept this public - its part of the 'social media' after all.

Any views?