William Kinmont

Old farmers, young vets, and the impact of Brexit on agriculture…

William Kinmont on November 11, 2017, 9:01 pm | Readers 2065

The chief fire officer recently requested that we use the term fire fighter and not fireman, in order to encourage and support females into the profession. My profession has already made this demographic shift, from a male dominated profession 40 years ago to 90 percent female graduates now. The selection process and the course itself means that the young women graduating are amongst the most determined and gifted of their generation and it is a special privilege to have them …

Don’t wait to wait for a human doctor? No problem just ask your local friendly vet to treat you…

William Kinmont on October 29, 2017, 7:03 am | Readers 1339

The small market town I call home now has three! , three places where you can have piercings and tattoos applied to your body. It is apparently a thriving industry. I wondered if could diversify into this myself as I applied a ring to the nose of a young bull, I’m pretty sure there is a set of tattoo pliers in a drawer somewhere in the surgery from the days before microchips were used to identify greyhounds. It’s not as …

Agribusiness post Brexit should be a concern to all of us not just the farming community…

William Kinmont on August 29, 2017, 11:09 am | Readers 685

The sands of the Brexit egg timer are running down on whether we have a hard or soft boiled outcome, either way, the industry which will be most scrambled by the outcome is agri food. Approximately half of the EU budget has historically been spent on subsidising this industry, almost every farm on every road from Aughnacloy to Athens has been in receipt of a cheque as well as tariff protections which have kept them in business for living memory. …