9. Legal action is also underway against the planning authority and developer responsible for this wrongdoing. The High Court has granted local residents permission for judicial review, but they need help to fund legal representation. Can you help? crowdjustice.com/case/northstow… END.

And so it spreads, Gareth Wyn Jones Joe Stanley minette batters any plans? Not that we have a gov to protest against at the moment..

We were promised proper scrutiny of trade deals by Parliament time & time again. Government has completely failed to give Parliament the proper opportunity to discuss, debate and scrutinise the Australia Free Trade Agreement and with that every farmer in the UK has been betrayed.

This isn’t just farming’s problem; it’s bad news for all of us. If 40°c was a wake up call, then we should all be concerned about importing carbon-heavy food from the four corners of the earth to displace more sustainable 🇬🇧 production.

#frazzled winter brassicas despite high OM soil, irrigation before and after drilling the 2nd heatwave finished these off. Not sure whether its worth trying again, National Farmers' Union minette batters #farming #foodsecurity might be a long #hungrygap this winter in UK.

Why is there so little seeming focus in the energy crisis debate about the catastrophe facing small businesses? Significant numbers are too small to hedge costs, their monthly power bills have quintupled over 18 months and they are…

Sobering to hear from #Jimmyrusso of Valley Grown Salads in The Times and The Sunday Times today, as a sector we are staring down the barrel thanks to the #EnergyCrisis yet not a peep from National Farmers' Union minette batters or have i missed something?

Value, Importance & Tomatoes 🍅 A blog which is really a long-winded question: why does economics spend so much time pondering value but not all that much time pondering importance? Any answers gratefully received! edmundconway.com/blog-after-tom…

Hey, friends, we just gave our company to planet Earth. OK, it’s more nuanced than that, but we’re closed today to celebrate this new plan to save our one and only home. We’ll be back online tomorrow. nytimes.com/2022/09/14/cli…

To celebrate the arrival of autumn I’m giving away this ‘Dunloe’ bushcraft knife - Swedish steel dressed in Finnish curly birch, it’s a real Scandi classic! TO ENTER: ✅ Follow me ✅ Like ✅ Retweet Giveaway ends Thursday 22nd September at 5pm OVER 18’s , UK & ROI only

This deserves to be widely read in the food world foodservicefootprint.com/comment-chance…

A very interesting little snippet from the Speccie. spectator.co.uk/article/truss-…

I get consumers are struggling with food prices, so Ocado you"re welcome to pay less for your rhubarb next yeat but it wont be from these fields. Farming has inflation too btw.

Grown veg for years, now growing trees. Mainly Oak and Hornbeam. But Paulownia? Copsework Patrick Turk is the #timber as good as the carbon evangelists say it is?

Meanwhile Defra UK advice on finding dead swans, "if we arent out in 48 hrs bag them up and put them in your domestic waste". The binmen will love that and i guess the bags will end up on local tip, home to thousands of seagulls...

We have lost 227,350 FR birds, 24k Organic and 447k Colony since 1st October which is >743k this season. We lost 1.8m layers in the 2021 season. Some losses will be due to AI, but the main reason we have no egg is price. Producers are losing 29.61p/doz!

This is not okay. A recent study showed that if the US eliminated ALL MEAT from our diets, we would only decrease GHG emissions by 2.6%, or 0.36% globally. At the same time, we’d suffer from even more nutrient deficiencies and our obesity rates would climb.

Thanks to everyone that has signed our petition. Here is a pic of some of you who turned up at the shop this afternoon. 1,336 people have signed so far. Please retweet. change.org/save-camisa-so… #savecamisa #retweet

Meanwhile BBC Radio 4 Today talk of every reason bar consistent retailer abuse of their supply chain destroying grower profits, confidence and investment, perhaps Judith Batchelar ex Sainsbury's wrong person to ask! #reapwhatyousow

Sums up so much thats wrong with farming, also illustrates the gravy train of added cost layers which benefit neither farmer or consumer just the parasitic middleman.