I hope that everyone has had a good Christmas and is looking forward to the roller coaster of 2009 Its already starting to feel exciting. I came back to the office today after a few days off and I'm trying to workout where we are heading for in 2009 I have to admit its quite a hard one to call. Some of our crops look good, most of them are average and we have some well below that. The wheat price is showing signs of picking up but it needs to go higher.

2008 was a really busy year for me both personally and at work. Today is 6 months from my wedding day. but this time last year I wasn't even engaged. In fact I was in New Zealand visiting the Johnson family's this time last year enjoying the sunshine. On the farm we cropped and harvested the biggest area we have ever harvested and consequently dealt with the most wet grain that we have ever dealt with.

This year I'm hoping to develop more business for the estate however I can. I don't plan on being scared by this big recession job. I hope that it will bring in more opportunities; with companies looking for alternative's for their events on the corporate side, People looking to move location as a result of restructuring on the property side. and a weaker pound giving our products more value on the agriculture side. I was listening on the radio today to a lady talking about how to cope with today's financial environment and she said "look for the gap between the trees" she went on to explain that if you where in a car coming of the road heading towards a load of big trees the best place to look is the gap between them so long as the gap is big enough for you and your car it doesn't matter how big and scary the trees are.

That's it from me now I hope that I'll be updating this blog page more this year as well as keeping the photo of the day up to date, I told myself i should.