Canterbury Farmers Club - Topics of Meetings
Previous club events have included the following talks and speakers:
Sarah Calcutt on Fruit Marketing and Promotion Challenges
Graham Lacey - Commercial Director of Centaur Grain.
Andrew Forbes - Veterinary Surgeon
George Lyon - Isle of Bute - Past President of Scottish NFU and past MSP for the Liberal party
Clive Wreathall of Appledore Turkeys
Ed Lovejoy - Young Farmers
Mike Bax of Humberts
David Neale of Masstock Arable UK - Growing Fuel
John Alvis - award-winning producer of Farmhouse Cheddar cheese and Port Bacon from Bristol.
Stephen Carr - 'The life of Riley'
David Fursdon - CLA President
Robert Law - Farmers Weekly Farmer of the Year and Arable Farmer of the Year.
Richard Ashworth - MEP for the South East of England
Nick Allen of EBLEX. For those members not in the beef or lamb sector that want to know more about EBLEX please note they have an excellent website on www.eblex.org.uk.
William Cumber who farms in Oxfordshire about his own farming system and the philosophy behind it.
Julian Little of Bayer CropScience - “If we do not have GM Crops - then what?” - we have permission to make the following documents available to you.
Prof. Anthony Trewavas of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology University of Edinburgh on “Organic Food and Farming: Hidden Agendas” - he has kindly made the following documents available:
- Organic Food and Farming: Hidden Agendas - the presentation (a pdf file of 312kb)
- Organic Food - The Hidden Agenda report (pdf file of 60kb)
- A critical assessment of organic farming-and-food assertions with particular respect to the UK and the potential environmental benefits to no-till agriculture (pdf file of 451kb).
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