The truth about sheep instagram.com/stories/rebecc…

Farmers and technology, who would have thought it!

Cracking sunset and some very active clouds over the Vale. Forecast is thunder and a lot of rain tomorrow

There is a point that comes for business owners. Where you’re so fed up with the stress, hassle, and tax that you stop coming in on Saturday and decide to spend more time with the family instead. You don’t hire another employee and instead say no to that new client. Where you

Steve Reed the environment Secretary on the airwaves today promising to halve sewage spills by 2030. However, in Ofwat’s final determination it says that the investments made from our bills will reduce spills by 45% in that time so is not really new. ofwat.gov.uk/regulated-comp…

Seems reasonable … instagram.com/reel/DLtZpiezW…

Rain over the weekend and now the wheats are going black. Bloody marvellous…

TO AVOID AGRICULTURAL POLICY FIASCOS, PAY ATTENTION TO FARMERS' NEEDS In a previous post I mentioned the intensive undergraduate training in farm planning provided as part of the Agricultural Tripos at the School of Agriculture at Cambridge University. We were essentially

Nice clean stubbles. That’s where the good news ends. Yields in this part of Yorkshire are s***e. Worse than last year

Council tree officers operate within a wierd lunacy. All of this to protect one tree’s roots which were cut away by hand! Road already closed for 8 weeks and a cost of 250 k. Madness

Both the grammar in this tweet and the political message hidden within it trouble me, deeply ‘more financially as well as’ And basically the message seems to be ‘hey peasants, mend nature for free, whilst also producing the cheapest and most plentiful food in human history’

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Not a grain shall be left behind as we switch to harvesting seed wheat…

Pleased to have been part of BBC Farmwatch yesterday talking about the challenges which farmers are facing #BBCfarmwatch

Rebecca did an excellent piece live on BBC Business yesterday. Link att if you’d like to check it out bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Harvest completed. Earliest ever start, earliest ever finish, shortest duration ever. OSR passable, wheat a disaster, spring barley way below average. Fallowed land after wet last year/ ploughed/ strip tilled - no difference between establishment methods. Explanations?

How do supermarkets/ malsters/flour mills etc allocate Scope 3 emissions from all the imported grain that’s coming into the country? We know it’s not Assured but are they also not concerned about the carbon footprint?

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