Busman’s holiday. Sur le domaine Haute Cote De Nuits.

I wish that secretaries of state HAD to have experience of their ministry. Having no idea about the industry is killing agriculture.

Centax, from whom Rachel Reeves took her farming inheritance tax idea, has said the policy should be better focused, and found it impacts working farmers more than other landowners, and some will not be able to pay without selling farm assets centax.org.uk/news-release-i…

Guardian editorial column calls for Rachel Reeves to reconsider the family farm tax: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A brilliant update from our sponsored Harper Adams University researcher, Dr Joe Collins. Between busy fieldwork & show season, Joe kindly gave us a tour, showing us exactly where his research is taking place. Listen to Joe's findings comparing conventional & conservation agriculture.

That time of year - tight field ? Setting up for subsoiling in the once in a decade year it will work.

So rewarding to get these vines to here :

The utter idiocy of deciding that the basis of our food system and our landscape management is ‘irrelevant’ because it’s now done so cheap it looks small on a spreadsheet And forgetting we all literally die without it is the kind of crack-headed BS that’s got us here

🎲. The race to get away is on.

Riding shot gun in the big beast! Not a bad crop, going into wheat next week.

Perfect mole draining. Sticky snotty field that is finally dry enough to hold a mole.

Wheat needs to go up £100 a ton.

The best cover crops - the ones that grow !! In early and now off thanks to the 40mm of rain on Saturday.

What’s going on with the price£ of potatoes? Some ridiculously low offers being made. Well below the break even £/t.

Warm weather sunshine and rain has made the fodder beet bounce !! Getting bigger by the day 🐄

What a game 🏉🏟️the score was unfair to CanRUG - great skill and spirit. Superb performance from the Red Roses !!

Always good to test drive new chemistry. Useful activity on this resistant IRG from #Fundatis after a good early (burnt off) flush and drilling into ideal conditions.

With The help of Dan Neidle they will actually achieve what they wanted in the first place and protect most family farms Sooner they do sooner farmers stop taking there lives

7P at work. Detail matters ! New customer off to the best start with Dawsum up and away, IRG control plan working and tillage has done its job.

The Harper Adams University Conservstion Ag bs conventional Ag trial continues - thanks to BASE-UK for the support. The CA plots are drilled in the green into the spring cover that was not helped by the drought - but roots are roots ! #notil