Ben Goldsmith To be honest Ben, if we weren't covering the nation in concrete, we wouldn't need to rewild anything. The sad reality is that population density is too high.

Summer cover crop, aiming to establish wheat direct in the autumn. The noise of insect life is deafening!

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Farming is often about acting on a gut feeling…….this feels right!

That was close!!

I do love a summer cover crop, great for the soil and pollinators. Wish it was an SFI option! This is after failed winter beans

RISK ⚠️ now shouldered by food producers is huge 🌧️ climate change 🛒 unfairness in the supply chain 💰 reduced government support ❓ policy uncertainty 📈 market volatility Our entire food system is built on remarkably fragile foundations & the goodwill is running out.

An excellent letter by Sir James Dyson. Well worth reading, many valid points, and we in our ‘farming’ bubble need to remember that it’s all businesses that IHT applies too, & is equally unaffordable to many of them.

I have no words 😶 Has anybody ? #farming

Steve Reed MP This aged well :

And if you wonder what that all means, and whether this isn’t just about paying your fair share of tax, then this might explain… unherd.com/2024/11/a-farm…

The stupidest bit of this is that the treasury value clearly doesn’t understand that farms are the primary match funders and cash flow mechanism for nature restoration in the U.K. - actually bankrolling their own COP29 promises as co funders Half of them earn less than £25k

1/2 Just thought i’d share this letter we received literally yesterday from Daniel Zeichner MP thanking us for everything we have done to shape the new sfi and reassuring us that the government is investing in the industry

Richard Negus Jeremy Squirrell Ali Drummond SaveOurSuffolkSwifts Hannah Bourne-Taylor Defra UK BTO Suffolk National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) BBC Wildlife The Wildlife Trusts No Farmers, No Food Jake Freestone Henry J🇺🇦🇪🇺 No Farmers No Food Tom Jewers UKSwifts Bolton & Bury Swifts The Labour Party Ireland And many of the farms that provided it , traditional family farms brought up with wildlife look after it ! Corporation owned tax dodge land will not be a saviour , killing the wildlife keepers kills the wildlife quicker !

Absolute nonsense We are almost certainly experiencing a decline, and a significant one, because of declining real world budgets and increased trade pressure Find me one expert who agrees with this assessment, one 🤷🏼‍♂️ This is a disastrous government for nature