Farmer and producer of food on the most marginal land in Sussex. Feeding the soil and scratching a living. Doing Gods work most days 😇
Sussex, England
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This is idiotic
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Badger is the principle predator of hedgehogs. There is scientific consensus on this and this kind of misinformation is just as unhelpful as claims they're solely responsible for hedgehog declines. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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This tidiness trope needs to stop, @BenGoldsmith because it distracts from the real reasons why hedgehogs are disappearing.
Weather extremes are affecting their food supply (this year no slugs and worms gone deep due to drought). More on this later..1/9 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5…
Go for a walk on almost any farm in Britain and ask yourself where a hedgehog might find food, water or shelter there. The rough edges, pockets of scrub, areas of unkempt long grass, piles of dead wood, marshy wet areas and ponds, all tidied away. There’s nowhere left for them.
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The guys no idiot, he’s the biggest wind up merchant in our midst.
He also knows his level of influence powers on despite completely ignoring the truth and spouting nonsense.
Try and ignore him
Go for a walk on almost any farm in Britain and ask yourself where a hedgehog might find food, water or shelter there. The rough edges, pockets of scrub, areas of unkempt long grass, piles of dead wood, marshy wet areas and ponds, all tidied away. There’s nowhere left for them.
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Sunoak Paxton
When you’ve got great stock bulls that are easily handable, easy calving but great growth figures.
Golden 🤩 🐮
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Spot on.. it’s a lazy rhetoric that is out of date.
Most of us haven’t got the resources to be tidy anymore, and there’s much greater understanding of the need for habitat
I think you might be about a decade too late or 5 years too early with this criticism.
Government policy leads to tidy farms. Look at the desire there was for SFI, gone in 6 hours!
Farmers will do whats asked of them but they need to be supported
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Any beef finishers growers in UK
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Using automated weighing systems or similar technology.
Any views or advice or experiences?
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Cheers
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Never been truer
The key is to cut out all the BS that you don’t really need in the production and admin process
Everybody wants a piece of agriculture. The bank wants interest. The supplier wants a bigger check. Organizations want dues. Bureaucrats want to control the Reports.
The farmer? We just want enough left to raise our families and give our kids a reason to come back.
When did that become too much to ask?
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Phil Nash retweeted
One of the most annoying social media trends is people who aren’t able to regulate their own behaviour with some level of moderation, hence having to give up things entirely and then preaching like they’ve found the key to life.
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Dear Government
Stop this shit coming in now
Thanks
The Food Standards Agency has issued a Food Alert for Action to businesses, including caterers, manufacturers and wholesalers, instructing the withdrawal of eggs and egg products from a Ukrainian food business due to salmonella.
Read more: gov.uk/government/news/the-f…
ALT Food Standards Agency social media graphic about salmonella in eggs. The background shows a close-up photograph of brown eggs filling the frame. In the top right corner is the Food Standards Agency logo and website address, food.gov.uk. Two blue text panels overlay the image. The first reads: “Eggs and Salmonella”. The second reads: “Businesses to remove some eggs from sale due to salmonella”.
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Why are we calling these “spills”? They are intentional sewage discharges not “spills”!! Spills are accidental! @BBCWalesNews
More than 800,000 hours of sewage spills in Wales last year, report claims bbc.in/4AVxAg7
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