Sincere thanks to Boris Johnson for a very positive meeting today. A strong commitment to work with us building the British Food and Farming Brand #NetZero #Environment #Biodiversity #BackingBritishFarming

At 12:00 today the Agriculture Act 2020 received Royal Assent 🙌 During the final debate in the House of Lords on Monday, Baroness Bakewell praised the work of the NFU and minette batters in securing amendments to the Act 👇 #BackBritishFarming 👏🇬🇧🧑‍🌾

Great to see these have arrived with @EP_RURAL they won’t solve the problem of Hare Coursing on their own but they can assist in properly reporting! It is always worth reporting accurate, timely information to help the responders do their work.

Having wrongly thought Suffolk was heading to tier 4 (and we’d be having Christmas dinner for 2) we went ‘essentials’ shopping. We came away with red wine, maple-syrup smoked bacon, a Waitrose mag, brandy butter and to top it off... a sodding guinea fowl (🇬🇧 of course). Ashamed.

After years of lobbying from ⁦National Farmers' Union⁩ working with the ⁦British Bioethanol⁩ it is fantastic to see this delivered Fuelling a greener future: E10 petrol set for September 2021 launch - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/new…

#Earthday Beet sugar is better for the planet than cane sugar #backhomegrownsugar

Who doesn't love a sweet Australian import, eh? But actual imported Aussie cane sugar is way more complicated. The future trade deal with 🇦🇺 is right now being thrashed out in the Cabinet. And, I just can't get it out of my thread...👇

This is my attempt at food photography- a ladybird engorging on an aphid. I’m hoping it wasn’t a chance find and was being replicated across the farm! A much more satisfying image than a perfectly arranged flambé with a well constituted jüs BBRO_Beet

A good morning on farm in South Essex branch covering topics from International Trade, Farming rules for Water, Agricultural Policy, Planning reform and Climate change. Thank you Stephen Metcalfe for joining us and helping us take things forward

Today is #BackBritishFarmingDay Recently in Essex we’ve welcomed three of our MPs onto members’ farms to highlight the issues facing British Agriculture. Thank you James Cleverly🇬🇧 Giles Watling Stephen Metcalfe for joining us and remember to Back British Farming!

Very pleased to have survived week one with the new boss. Must be beer o’clock…

We are hiring again. I would be very grateful for ReTweets and please do alert anyone who might be interested #ThankYou

This underlines a point I’ve made time & time again. We need to stop talking about “food poverty” which tries to shift the responsibility to the food industry. It is Income Poverty full stop which manifests itself in food, housing & fuel challenges. A disgrace in the UK in 2022

There is a lot of mythology about soils. Using a very large dataset from China a big gang of colleagues tried to put some numbers on why good soil management is important for yields and resilience: See results here: nature.com/articles/s4155…

You might not agree with it all, I’m not sure I do. And some of it may be fairly impractical (i.e. an 88% reduction in sugar beet production = 100% in reality). But this is well worth reading. (Don’t lose faith in the 125 pages, it’s worth it)

What Suffolk lacks in hills, it makes up for in evening skies

We try our hardest to look after the crops we grow but sometimes we get tripped up. Loads of great #onions left here for #gleaning but too many suffered from the extreme 40+ degree heat meaning we can’t store or sell them. Please come & help yourselves #backbritishfarmers

Very pleased to have launched this yesterday. Looking forward to working with our Farmers and Suppliers to help them stay ahead of the curve as the project develops. Thanks to Land App and UKCEH and for helping to make it happen!

Cherry stuff in the ES. Hoping the powers that be are listening. Also hoping that the inhabitants of London don’t think they have to wait for our (uninspiring) leaders.