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Two hundred of the thousand acres at Diddly Squat grew nothing at all this year. That was a decision taken in advance, on a spreadsheet. Wheat or barley on that ground was a guaranteed loss before the drill left the shed, so Jeremy Clarkson left it bare and explained why in his Sun column this week. One line from it went everywhere. Farmers have reached the point where it is quite simply impossible to make money from growing food. Every paper carried that sentence, and every paper stopped there. The list underneath it did not get printed anywhere. Because he went on to set out what two hundred acres of good English ground could do instead of feeding anyone, and there were four items on it. - Rent it to a global agri-company growing crops for anaerobic digesters. - Cover it in solar panels. - Put a data centre on it. - Sell the farm to a Chinese company for a multistorey high-intensity piggery. Every one of those pays. The only use of that land which reliably loses money is the one that puts food on a British plate. He added that he was not being ridiculous, and that anybody in 1926 would have laughed you out of the room for suggesting the factories would be gone by 2026. Now the bit with a date on it. From 1 January 2027 the UK's carbon border tax applies to imported fertiliser. The Treasury's own costings put the take at £140 million in 2027-28, rising to £180 million the year after. Estimates of the hit run from around £33 a tonne to £75, which is a fifth to a quarter added to the largest input bill an arable farm carries. The Central Association of Agricultural Valuers has warned that a typical 500 acre cereals farm could be down as much as £70,000 once fertiliser and fuel costs land. So the fertiliser that grows the wheat gets taxed on a known date, in writing, by a government that says out loud it wants food security. Nobody in Whitehall has ever signed a policy to stop Britain growing food. They have signed a great many that make every alternative pay better, which arrives at the same field. And understand whose field this is. Diddly Squat has a television crew, a farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, a lager brand, a bestselling book every autumn and one of the best land agents in the country. It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and two hundred of them were left bare this year because putting seed in them was the losing move. Every arable farmer in England is doing that same sum this autumn. Almost none of them have a production company to cover the difference. Those two hundred acres have not gone out of production. They are waiting to hear which industry wants them more than you do.

Old school power in the yard💪

Winter covers going in after a disappointing wheat harvest. Harvest 2027?

We’re all set for #Groundswell2026! 🌱 Join us on Stand DW5 tomorrow 👋 Featuring Simtech TJG300, HE-VA G-Drill (both 1000L), Stocks Ag applicators & a stunning, classic John Deere 3650 🚜😍

Territory Manager Nick Rider is at the Royal Welsh Grassland Event today. Come and find out more about the Alpego stone burier #OPICO #Alpego

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▪️Postponing local elections ▪️Postponing mayoral elections ▪️Signing up to the WHO treaty ▪️Fibbing about government finances ▪️Mandatory Digital ID ▪️Arresting people for online comments ▪️Reducing jury trials ▪️Punishing pensioners, farmers, disabled and small businesses ▪️Giving away Chagos ▪️Plastering solar panels across thousands of acres of prime farmland despite community objections ▪️Carbon capture machines ▪️Sun dimming experiments ▪️Massive tax rises ▪️Record numbers of small boat crossings No one voted for this. Labour won the election without any of this being disclosed in their manifesto. A gigantic political misselling scam.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the inheritance tax on family farms was a by-product of the “£22bn black hole” that didn’t exist. This was a disingenuous political decision based on a lie by Rachel Reeves that has caused huge financial peril for thousands of farmers.

Chancellor spoke of wanting the UK to be “the best place to start up, scale up and stay” and said that “growth begins with the spark of an entrepreneur”. She promised that “if you build here, Britain will back you”. What a word salad of total rubbish everyone is leaving or pulling back investment!

It is truly one of the great wonders of the world that in the UK, government employees failed to improve their own productivity AT ALL during the period when the internet, the mobile phone, email, e-commerce etc etc were becoming ever more efficient. Staggering achievement.

James Thurlow from @tnstractors talks us through the 1971 @MF_EAME 135 #tractor, to appear in the @CheffinsMachine Machinery & Vintage sale on 18th October 🚜 The proceeds will go to @DementiaUK 💛 #charitytractor #tns #thurlownunnstanden #vintagetractor #fundraising #auction

💯 3M @AlpegoUK IZ demo with @ChandlersFE, reinstating set-aside ground Powered by a 200hp tractor running at 4kph, the Stone Burier handled the crop effortlessly - potentially replacing four passes of the traditional system💫 To book your demo, visit: ow.ly/wpFA50X4OiO

This is what clean energy looks like. A massive diesel powered train taking “Biomass” (wood) to Drax power station from Liverpool where it arrived on oil guzzling tankers from Brazil and USA. And yet we are sitting on coal gas and cities like Aberdeen and industry are dying