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    Really thrilled that our paper - Understanding positive animal welfare through good stockmanship: insights from UK sheep farmers has been published in Frontiers in Animal Science - do check it out  

Taking a moment for the spectacular sunsets or a sunrises over the last week has been awe inspiring. Nature is just amazing and connects us to all those who have seen spectacular sunsets in the past and those who will see the ones to come..  

Really good to see our paper published "Who Defines Good Welfare? Identity, Legitimacy and Discourse in Positive Animal Welfare" in Sociologia Ruralis - do check it out.

  I am leading a harvest thanksgiving service this Sunday so this week I will be focusing on the 'talk' element in the middle and what I will say. From a farming perspective, there have been better years, we have lost loved ones who won't be at the service this year in person, but we will remember them and yet as a rural community we have a lot to be grateful for..  Robert Louis Stevenson is reported to have said "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." Maybe I will start my thinking there..

  Really pleased to give a keynote presentation on agri-food strategy in the UK on Tuesday. Lots of reflection to prepare and deliver the session and brilliant question and answer element which got into the challenges agri-food businesses face and the opportunities they need to make space for. 

 Really pleased that our book chapter has been published "Assessing Food Safety Practices in Food Service Establishments Using Questionnaires and Observation." In: Stedefeldt, E., da Cunha, D.T. (eds) Food Safety in Food Services. Methods and Protocols in Food Science. Do check it out. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-5444-6_3