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Agroforestry Research Trust - A non-profit making UK body which researches into temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping and uses, including tree, shrub and perennial crops.
UK Agriculture - A guide to farming practices, the history of agriculture, the history of the countryside, conservation in practice and a 'field to fridge' series.
Pig Health - Information on the health and care of swine, particularly in the UK.
British Forestry - Information and links for sustainable forestry.
PigHealth.com - Provides information on swine health and diseases, and safety of pork. Has nearly 1000 articles and links on the subject matter and has a comprehensive book shop on pig topics. Extensive coverage of 2001 foot and mouth outbreak.
Allerton Research & Educational Trust - Offers a practical demonstration of the integration of game and wildlife conservation with profitable farming.
Institute of Arable Crops Research - Conducts basic, strategic and applied research in biological and related sciences, integrating these to optimise crop production systems. Site describes the work of the institute and provides maps of how to get to its sites.
National Institute of Agricultural Botany - Independent body specialising in agriculture, horticulture and food. It supplies a number of services including consultancy, training, and technical advice to governments, supra-governmental agencies, agribusiness and farmers.
Hannah Research Institute - International scientific research centre focused on the biology of lactation and the use of milk in food products. Provides information on activities, research and scientific publications.
Macaulay Institute - Multidisciplinary-based research institute investigating rural economic development and the protection and enhancement of natural resources. Site provides details of research and publications plus information about the Institute.
Teletractor - Project to evaluate mobile telecommunications equipment and internet services for farming and other rural industries.
Oxford Sandy & Black Pig Society - A society dedicated to preserving and enhancing this endangered breed.
Broom's Barn - Details of research and information on growing sugar beet. Based in Suffolk.
Golden Beet Club - A source of information for sugar beet growers and their advisors. The club and website is operated by Syngenta.
Care of British Farming - Promotes British farming, British grown food, and the countryside. Describes what farmers do.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Agriculture I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone "Man is a strange animal. 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The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Agriculture "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Agriculture We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Agriculture You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Agriculture Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa Agriculture Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Agriculture The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Agriculture The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you r The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Agriculture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Agriculture It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Agriculture "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Agriculture The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Agriculture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Agriculture "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Agriculture May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Agriculture All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard Agriculture Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Agriculture The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Agriculture "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Agriculture
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