#happycows chewing the cud! #TeamDairy 🐄🐄🐮🐮😀

If you went to #farmfest what did you think of it? Was it great, or was it bad, was it enjoyable, was the music good? Would you go again next year?

The scary thing about supermarket food price caps is that we already know how this ends. The supermarkets protect their margins, the processors protect theirs, and the squeeze gets pushed straight back onto farmers ☹️ Not a penny off billions in supermarket profits, but another cut for the people producing the food. A serious government would focus on securing fertiliser, energy and domestic food production to prevent shortages and inflation in the first place. But that would require understanding that food comes from farms, not supermarkets. @agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy @TheFarmingForum @GBNEWS @Iromg @MartinDaubney thetimes.com/uk/politics/art… #Farming #FoodSecurity #UKFarming #Agriculture #CostOfLiving #FoodPrices #Inflation #Tesco #Farmers #EnergyCrisis #FoodSupply

In 1946 the British government introduced free school milk for every child in the country. One third of a pint, every school day, from the age of five to the age of fifteen. The milk was whole. Full-fat. From British dairy herds. It was delivered to the school gate in small glass bottles with foil caps and left on the doorstep in metal crates, where it sat in the sun until morning break if the weather was warm and developed a slightly suspect taste that an entire generation of British adults can still describe with uncomfortable precision. The generation that grew up on school milk was, by every anthropometric measure, the healthiest generation of British children ever recorded. Average height increased. Bone density improved. Dental health, despite the sugar in everything else, improved. Iron deficiency rates among school-age children dropped. The growth charts that the Ministry of Health had been keeping since the war showed a consistent, measurable, year-on-year improvement that tracked precisely onto the introduction of the milk programme. In 1971 Margaret Thatcher, then Education Secretary, cut free school milk for children over seven. The tabloids called her Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. She was vilified. She kept the policy. The next generation of British children, the ones who grew up without the daily third of a pint, were measurably less healthy than the one before. The growth charts show it. The dental records show it. The conscription medicals, while they lasted, showed it. The thing the milk had been providing, the calcium, the vitamin D, the vitamin A, the complete amino acid profile, the conjugated linoleic acid, the fat-soluble nutrients that a growing skeleton requires in order to reach its genetic potential, was no longer arriving at morning break in a glass bottle with a foil cap. It was replaced, eventually, by nothing. Or by a carton of fruit juice. Or by a packet of crisps from the vending machine that appeared in the school corridor in the 1990s. The generation that drank the milk is now in its seventies and eighties. They are, on average, taller, stronger-boned, and longer-lived than the generation that came after them. The milk was not magic. The milk was milk. It was the thing the body needed, delivered at the time the body needed it, at a cost the government considered acceptable until it didn't. The cost of not providing it has been rather higher.

Found today on a Lancashire farm! A 1950s note that proves farming life hasn’t changed as much as we think.. 📸 Margaret Lees

Wonder how on earth I can find a flytipped load of sharps and medical waste in my field gateway. Surely the disposal of this stuff is more regulated?

Any kind of human presence on the moon should be strictly limited. There should be international policy to promise to protect it. No mining for valuable resources, no space bases for mars. Our moon is vital for life on earth. It should be left well alone.

British Farming is struggling right now and here’s why. We no longer value food, unless it’s been highly processed. That’s why farmers can’t make a profit while supermarkets continue to enjoy bumper profits year after year

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #retweet! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9

Brilliant performance by The Hawkstone Farmers Choir. They so deserved the Golden buzzer 👏👏🇬🇧🚜 @JeremyClarkson

MY Grrreat Nephew Archie (fourth generation Halhead to farm at #BayHorse) sent me these photos of your tartan-wrapped tractor in #Carnforth #Lancashire during its tour, @MNDoddie5 Foundation! 💙💛 #MND #MoreNeedsDoing! @ceresrural

I'm no bird expert, but I'm quite confident these two are married.

As you're doing farmer analogies, 👇🏻……

A poem for those farmers who might have experienced trouble, financial/emotional difficulty and the weather uncertainties of 2025.. never give up! 🙏 📸 Young Farmers of the UK

On a roll today, or severely procrastinating compared to what I should be doing! @Minette_Batters 2025 Farming Profitability Review. Remains to be seen as to whether Gov will consider or use it to say “we’ve done something”

The Farmer's Share: Who Carries the Risk vs. Who Gets the Reward?

WHAT ABOUT ACTUAL FARMERS? The ones who are the REAL EXPERTS in farming. I know a few who would be more than happy to be involved! WHAT WE DON’T NEED ARE MORE BOARDS TELLING US WHAT IS BEST FOR US. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

The answers to this thread from 2023 seem just as relevant now as they did back then…if not more so.

“Out of Pocket” giving kids breakfast??? What a ridiculous thing to say. I set mine up for school with uniform, shoes, bags, books & stationery - are you going to be paying for that too? 🙄

fwi.co.uk/news/opinion/opini… Latest for @FarmersWeekly 🙂

Surely her job is to protect & improve the countryside for its inhabitants. Obviously the wildlife matters to her just as much as farmers & rural communities do. 🙄 Seems Emma & new housing minister Steve are working together to finish us all off. Absolute 💩 show.