Welcome | The Signpost
| Melanie Hall talks about future plans |
John Holman welcomes you to Edition 36 of Farm Radio. 
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Click on the signpost to find your way to "Chalk and Cheese" and "Levels and Moors" items.
|  Geoff Pagotto has an introductory piece with new South West NFU Director, Melanie Hall, who has taken over from Anthony Gibson, on the Dorset page of this edition but here, he talks to her about the NFUs plans for the future. |
Farming 2020 | Chris Coxon of MDC | A Cumbrian Hill Farmer |
| Tom Levitt spent much of his time at the last Oxford Conference gathering predictions for the future shape of farming in 2020, starting with David Milliband . . . |  Make spare time and get off the farm is the message from Chris Coxon. He wants more dairy farmers to meet as groups, share knowledge and here he tells Geoff Pagotto a lot can be learnt from just a few hours break every other month.
chris.coxon@mdc.org.uk
| Roger Crisp talks to a Cumbrian hill farmer about the special conditions and challenges to be faced farming at up to 1,000 feet with a climate that leans more to the winter than we have further south. |
Steve Paul | Lantra Conference | Milk Contracts |
 Somerset based cattle foot trimmer wants farmers to think preventitive when it comes to cows feet - Geoff Pagotto caught up with Steve in Dorset and also from Sturminister Newton farmer Mark Tuffin during one of Steve's cattle lameness workshops.
Steve's website: www.cowsfeet.co.uk
National Association of Cattle Foot Trimmer website: www.nacft.co.uk
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The Land Based Sector Skills Agreement is the very bureaucratic sounding title for a subject that will touch all farming and countryside people - education. Geoff Pagotto went to it's regional launch in Cannington and herd what it means from movers and shakers - Malcolm Gillespie from the LSC, Dr Gordon McGlone of LANTRA, Dr Fred Harper from the SW Food and Farming Futures Group and Ross Etherington from the TUC UnionLearn.
www.lantra.co.uk | Tips and pointers from dairy discussion groups are what Geoff Pagotto hears from Chris Coxon, particularly about turn out and milk contracts.
chris.coxon@mdc.org.uk
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Izzy’s Trip to Canada, Part 2 | | |
John Burgess finds out more about Izzy’s Canadian trip. | | |
