Farmer, environmentalist, campaigner, educator, realist- just trying to make a difference! For a sustainable future. CEnv
York, England
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Great thread- points 3/4 especially chime @Mather_Keir
1/ When a Treasury Minister explicitly states, "I don't think employers are working people," it isn't a careless gaffe. It is a mask-slip. It reveals a deeply entrenched, 19th-century ideological rot at the heart of modern governance. Let’s break down why this is so dangerous. 🧵
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How many businesses have survived, (or survived that bit longer) enabling employees to retain their jobs bc their employer worked 80,100,120hr weeks when times were tough?
Sacrificed time with their kids.
Walk a day in my shoes @EmmaforWycombe and tell me I’m not a working person
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Great 🧵 response from @Jes_Squirrell
Our work has seen biodiversity improve on the farm from 2005-2015, only to then see it stagnant as schemes/ support is messed with and funding dries or disappears. It’s shambolic.
If people are bothered #publicgoods need proper recognition
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…
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Just to be clear imported food and Ag Commodities are not covered by CBAM so once again UK farmers are disadvantaged , Aye @angelaeagle @UKLabour 🫵
CBAM : @angelaeagle and @UKLabour taxing farmers out of existence . Their plan is working
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Food prod’n for #harvest27 not getting off to a great start
Following four years with floods, two following that with hot dry summers, we now see a dry autumn
Pest attack, poor germination and even cover crops struggling
Farm resilience on a knife edge
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Four years since my last “episode”, coincided with the last #pigcrisis
Now broken down again with stress related eye disease hence my trip to ophthalmology today given poor vision.
The strain this gov are putting on farmers is unforgivable and burdening our fabulous NHS 😔 1/3
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Strong words from NFU vice-president Robyn Munt after this week's SFI "shambles" @NFUtweets @FarmersWeekly @DefraGovUK @StephenMorganMP @Lizard_Milne fwi.co.uk/news/opinion/opini…
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Reading the farm cluster WhatsApp group messages.
SFI 26 has exceeded expectations. It's even more of a shit show, than the shit show everyone thought it was going to be.
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🚨 NEW: Labour MPs have called a Government fund for farmers an “utter joke” after it was released with “no advance warning” and “snapped up with hours”
Leaked WhatsApp message: “FFS this is basic organising and shouldn’t be run like sodding festival tickets”
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Seen and heard so many tales of the continuing debacle around agricultural transition and the move to support farmers for the #publicgood they do (and have done) and to incentivise/ support more sustainable approach to production and land management.
It’s an utter mess @UKLabour
Just spoken to a farmer from the North York Moors about his day yesterday. He was late to the gimmer lamb sale waiting for SFI to open. He was last in the ring due to this & didn’t sell ended up. He came home, worked through the various website issues, went to submit and…
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Had some lovely drinks in the fields last night — gave them a good send-off. 😞🌾
I still can’t quite believe that, after everything this Government says about supporting farming, planning was granted to take these fields away from a tenant farmer.
It just doesn’t feel real!
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We’ve been told to “do more with less” @UKLabour
The uk farming sector has always risen to the challenge with science, technology and genetics.
Only KPI’s don’t work in our sector when the mainstream #supplychain is morally bankrupt and favour cheaper, lesser standard #imports
New genetics trial’s gone a bit too well
102kg ave deadweight 😬
Proof will be in the eating (QC’s a tough gig 😋).
Efficiency wise they’ve done bloody well and on a less “pokey” diet than we usually use, also with some post-weaning health challenge
Some heavy lifting 🏋️ today!
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While waiting for moisture I comforted myself with drilling ‘once the migration has finsihed’
Farming 🤦♂️
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Basically world trade rules ‘prevent’ this, though it makes perfect sense.
Question is whether world trade rules are adhered too?
Here's an idea for you @UKLabour @reformparty_uk @Conservatives, why don't we have a law that simply says, anything that is not allowed to be produced in the UK, is also not allowed to be imported to the UK?
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Popped to see the girl in the farrowing crate.
She wasn’t aware that the uk pig sector are voluntarily transitioning to flexible farrowing so her campaign is counterproductive.
Also wasn’t aware of the 1999 uk sow stall ban that halved the uk pig sector & meant more importing 1/2
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Thought for today.
A perfect parasite lives off its host without killing it.
Something that the Agricultural supply industry and Supermarkets should consider when reviewing pricing strategies.
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Ben Goldsmith conspiring to monetise the destruction of rural communities and family farms
And the pair of them argued for natural capital markets replacing or backfilling reduced/vanishing state funds
Part of the evolution to NOT funding nature restoration on every farm in England
So they have done grave harm to nature - almost certainly massive NET LOSS
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The standard @BenGoldsmith MO is at it again, but without those pesky peasants to prod and flag the bullshit.
All neatly packaged in @spectator, where the readers won't be bothered by people with more knowledge pointing out that Ben is deliberately lying
#Mushrooms
Running the citations through AI is fascinating
He’s all over the place making wild claims not backed up by the actual studies
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Ah, @BenGoldsmith and @GeorgeMonbiot , a little bit of 'sheep dumping' for you to watch, newly sheared ewes going back to the fell with their lambs. (video from last year)
Oh, and by the way, those trees are real and sheep do graze that Parkland.
There are no shepherds anymore! That’s the problem. The sheep are dumped on the hills all year round unsupervised, unprotected, and a good number of them consequently die of natural causes each year. A return to shepherding would be a good thing.
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