Nature & farming groups incl The Wildlife Trusts Nature Friendly Farming Network National Farmers' Union unite in calling for Government to not cut nature-friendly farming budget🧑‍🌾- would hit farming families, stop climate action & cause further damage to rivers, landscapes & wildlife🥀 See 👇 wcl.org.uk/farming-and-na…

Why the DEFRA food committee almost entirely exclude British farmers but include ultra processed food manufacturers and a sugar producer? Several are not even British companies! Sofina and McCain are Canadian, Greencore and Kerry are Irish, and Bidcorp is South African.

There are really only three choices for a food system 1) pay more for food and insist that farmers do their work in very nature friendly ways - this tends to screw the poor on limited income

Busy old day TB test reading. Relieved to have survived another year with a clean test. Think the calves enjoyed helping 🤣 #TBfree #rawmilk #cowwithcalfdairy #pasturefeddairy #pastureforlife

There gonna be food price inflation like you’ve never seen before You can’t dismantle production subsidies, kill the environmental replacement, take land out of production, raise taxes and allow farmers to be screwed and not expect supply to fall and prices rise rapidly

I see Rachel Reeves is pushing for a US trade deal… no thanks Keep American meat out of Britain - UnHerd unherd.com/2025/04/keep-a…

🐖🐓 Suffolk Pigs and Poultry Farmers, join us on Friday 30th May for a tour of Maple Farm, Kelsale, and soya free feed workshop. With Mike Mallet from Maple Farm, and Rebecca Mayhew of Old Hall Farm, Norfolk 📍 It’s FREE: just let us know you’re coming. eventbrite.co.uk/e/farm-tour-an…

It is darkly hilarious… and sort of establishes a grim precedent that farmers can’t trust governments at all That the most powerful of paradigms (public funds for public goods) can be swept away without a care because we are so weak

Einstein - “Not everything that can be counted counts - and not everything that counts can be counted.” In a stirring reflection, PfL co-founder Dr. John Meadley invites us to look beyond headlines and rediscover the deeper story of livestock. pastureforlife.org/news/backed-by…

Farmers are totally perplexed 1950-1990 cheap food 1990-2010 oh shit that crashes nature 2016 green BREXIT 2020-23 public goods for public £ 2024 not quite enough £ 2025 we’ve lost interest - can you do cheap food and nature with no funding? This wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card

With Helena Horton reporting that government plans to exclude ‘large’ farms from support for nature-friendly farming, a reminder that ‘larger’ farms under Defra stats = 75% of farmed area. We’d be abandoning any chance of achieving our nature targets.

Total idiots Every metric shows we are creating problems Damaging our own farming community and then importing more Makes zero sense

And for the millionth time they aren’t ‘subsidies’ or ‘farming support’ This literally pays for nature or outcomes that the market doesn’t, at cost price - farmers are now service providers, contractors and co-investors The language matters because they think this is a favour

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…

This is bob on; 👏👏👏 "Five years on from the passing of the Agriculture Act, rather than encourage more farmers to adopt nature-friendly practices, what we’re seeing is those farmers who have been farming with nature for years being left high and dry."

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HELP! The Govt rushed through Inheritance Tax changes with no proper consultation. Family farms & businesses are at risk. Jobs, heritage & communities will be lost. I’m taking them to Judicial Review — please support 👉 crowdjustice.com/case/family-bu… #SaveFamilyFarms

I just supported this case! crowdjustice.com/case/family-bu… via CrowdJustice

I’d never been particularly political until #pigcrisis hit 4yrs ago. Life was simpler before then, I was “mentally well”. I don’t think those in power comprehend HOW much DAMAGE THEY do to OUR MH thru ill thought out policy Yes Rachel Reeves I mean YOU #AxeTheFamilyFarmTax

And as if to prove my point, at the end of last week "All of the nature friendly amendments [to the planning bill] have been rejected by the government." My door is always open, always happy to talk.