Ian Ashbridge

Agricultural consultancy, valuation, investment. Experienced in agricultural management, journalism and higher education. All views are my own.

[Ian Ashbridge @ianashbridge]

I have an opportunity for a harvest worker on a south Cambridgeshire arable farm, 2000 acres, managed by us. Accommodation provided.

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Brexit as disruptive as disease outbreak, says farmers' leader https://t.co/9EWGVB9Ac3

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Grant scheme offers £50,000 for new rural projects News https://t.co/xNR7yE6seI the Princes Countryside Fund will receive applications from charities, not for profit organisations, that benefit social cohesion.

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England's national parks out of reach for poorer people – study https://t.co/r8t8wQgnEO

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“Integrated pest management will be absolutely critical to dealing with the challenge” [of reducing pesticide use] Michael Gove at #ORFC19 @LEAF_Farming

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@Jordanrichard_ Hi Jordan, can you email me some information about yourself and your practical farm experience to [email protected] ?

[Ian Ashbridge @ianashbridge]

I have an opportunity for a harvest worker on a south Cambridgeshire arable farm, 2000 acres, managed by us. Accommodation provided.

[Ian Ashbridge @ianashbridge]

@tomallenstevens I enjoyed our chat!

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If Paterson had done a bit more listening, but less insisting, we could have had a suite of greening rules that were flexible and workable

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Bit rich of Andrea leadsom to hammer "ridiculous bureaucratic" 3 crop rule at #ofc17 since it was Owen Paterson who chose it despite advice

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@Greg_Outdoors Hi Greg, Ian from Bidwells here. Could you kindly give me a ring when convenient on 07870 636019? Many thanks

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#OFCscholars @o_lsmith & Anna Purser meet Ian & Jonathan from @Bidwells who enabled them to attend @oxfordfarming

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@royalaguni students long since sick of me saying "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it" but exactly @neilperks3 philosophy #ofc16

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Haven Baker at #OFC16 paraphrased Bernard Shaw in that "UK and USA are now two countries divided by a common technology" (GM)

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@matthewnaylor @farmerThomo can't mothball it if you want APR.

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#OFC16 never heard it so eloquently as Bram Gomaerts. "There is no dogma in crop tech debates, there is only a systems (evidence) approach"

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kerry mccarthy baffling #ofc2016. Where are all these farmland acres acquired by investors and not farmed?

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Just three weeks to go until the IAgrM National Farm Management conference 2014. Visit http://t.co/v96Z4uPWVo
or email [email protected]

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Tomorrow's food needs +++water. Have your say on Water Abstraction reform. Follow link from @Bidwells' Water pages http://t.co/YNIwK2ORiX

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Back from 3 days in former East Germany looking at land. Still astonishingly different country - see Berlin by night http://t.co/DZrS7iiCt4