John Holman welcomes you to Edition 22 of Farm Radio
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Click on the signpost to find your way to "Chalk and Cheese" and "Levels and Moors" items.
|  We met two of the people from Global Generation at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show and were impressed with their vision and enthusiasm for the work that they are doing with children from London. Geoff Pagotto duly went to visit the project on its summer campsite at Pertwood Farm on the downs between Warminster and Shaftesbury to find out what they do to convey their message to the children that it is “Cool to Care”. Global Generation is on the lookout for winter quarters in this part of the world. Can anyone help?
Contact: http://www.globalgeneration.org.uk |
 Rachel Gawith and John Dixon, hill farmers in Cumbria, have had the idea of developing a specific farmers’ buying and selling website - everything from land and livestock to trailers and jobs. Rachel explained to Roger Crisp at the Dorchester Show how it works.
Contact: http://www.gofarmer.com |  With oil becoming an ever increasingly expensive commodity and, as our own supply runs out, sourcing will become a strategic problem, the government is at last starting to consider serious alternatives. Wessex Grain Ltd at the Stalbridge-Henstridge Industrial Estate is planning to set up a plant producing Bioethanol under a new company name, Green Spirit Fuels. Geoff Pagotto spoke to Managing Director Malcolm Shepherd about the process which will provide a new sustainable fuel for transport purposes and new opportunities for nearby farmers.
Contact: http://www.wessexgrain.co.uk/ Farmers interested in producing grain for bioethanol should contact Owen Cligg, Grain Trading Director. 01963 363162
e-mail: owen.cligg@wessexgrain.co.uk |  James’ poem from his collection for the month of September employs that near musical sound of a livestock auctioneer in full flight.
Contact:website
Phone:01460 30795 |
