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Some of the controversies in agriculture can be treated as a timeline of events. Statements can be put onto a set of cards for students to discuss, sort, classify and display. The students should be left free to choose and justify their criteria. | Jan 1 | Another year begins with mild weather allowing us to make a good start | | Feb 2 | Confirmed cases of Foot and Mouth Disease are just 10 miles away | | Mar 3 | Disinfectant straw lies across the end of the farm drive, with a bucket and brush available for those who choose to use it. What more can we do? These efforts seem futile; a token gesture | | Apr 4 | The practicalities of no stock movements are proving difficult in day-to-day farm management as lambing looms and space here is limited | | May 5 | If Foot and Mouth Disease gets closer, grazing safety must be considered as there would be a greater risk of cows catching air-borne virus | June 6
| Smelling the acrid smoke around the yard first thing in the morning, brought here on the wind from one of a dozen or so pyres we can see most days, isn't the best start to the day | July 7
| No new cases of Foot and Mouth Disease have been confirmed locally today for the first time since the outbreak | Aug 8
| Sometimes a gentle stroll down the track at dusk is required to restore a sense of proportion. How lucky we are to be able to live and work amid such beauty | Sept 9
| With sheep auctions a long way off restarting, the local auctioneers organised a video sale | | Oct 10 | After an eight-month break we have started the local farm project meetings again. It was really good to get together and start looking forward |
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