We need nature friendly farming, not a rewilded UK where our food is imported and conscience exported. We have the climate and landscape to make this eminently achievable.

Weaning time for the autumn born Angus. As many kilos as they are days old on average, but still 50-60kgs off 50% maternal efficiency. Slowly getting there with grading up cow quality. Genetics and easy management are the key to getting the suckler game right.

All estates need to be aware of cost and make strategic decisions, but I do worry that of its too loosely worded we will still see a significant sell off. This estate is the only reason we have been able to get going, it's of vital importance to the future of farming.

"The WHO classified red meat as a carcinogen." Yes. In 2015. Group 2A. Probably carcinogenic to humans. The classification was based on a meta-analysis finding that fifty grams of processed meat per day was associated with an 18 percent increase in relative risk of colorectal cancer. Let me translate that. Relative risk is the change in your odds. Absolute risk is your actual odds. The lifetime absolute risk of colorectal cancer in the general population is roughly 4 percent. An 18 percent relative increase moves it to approximately 4.7 percent. The risk has not doubled. The risk has not tripled. The risk has gone from one in twenty-five to roughly one in twenty-one, and only if you are eating fifty grams of processed meat every day for life. Smoking, in the same classification scheme, increases your relative risk of lung cancer by approximately 1,900 percent. Your risk of lung cancer goes from roughly 1 percent to roughly 20 percent. Group 1 carcinogens, the category processed meat shares with cigarettes, also include: alcoholic drinks, the contraceptive pill, wood dust, salted fish, sunlight, outdoor air in heavily polluted cities, and the profession of being a painter. Group 2A, where unprocessed red meat sits, includes: shift work, drinking very hot beverages, and the profession of being a barber. The classification reflects the strength of the evidence that something causes cancer. It does not reflect how much cancer the thing actually causes. Bacon and tobacco are not in the same league. They share a room because the room is the size of a warehouse.

Ex dairy next door. Tidy but tired, fresh sand in the cow kennels, clusters washed down & hung up. Hard not to get sentimental about the loss of these small herds, an era never to return, farms that no longer sustain a family. It's all "progress" tho I'm not sure in who's name...

It's not vegan leather. It's plastic. It's not oat milk. It's a beverage made by enzymatically processing oat starch and emulsifying it with rapeseed oil. It's not vegan cheese. It's coconut oil, modified starch, and titanium dioxide pressed into a slice. It's not plant-based meat. It's pea-protein isolate, seed oils, and methylcellulose extruded into a patty. It's not a butter alternative. It's an industrial spread invented by a soap company. It's not a milk alternative. It's water with oats and additives, sold for double the price of milk. Every product on the plant-based shelf has been linguistically rebranded to borrow the legitimacy of the food it replaced. The cow has not been consulted on the use of her name. The sheep has not consented to the term vegan wool. The marketing department in London has consented to all of it. The animals predate the marketing department by ten thousand years. The marketing department will be gone before the animals will.

Fertilizer costs have reached shocking levels threatening farm viability. The government’s 2027 carbon tax will add another £50 - 75/t forcing Britains farmers to abandon autumn planting decisions. Food prices will rise, import dependency will increase ☹️ The carbon tax on fertilizer must be scrapped immediately. #NetZeroNetStupid #FoodSecurity #FarmingCrisis #CarbonTax #AutumnPlanting #BritishFarming #FoodInflation #SupportFarmers

Corn Bunting. One of the sounds of summer evenings for me, lovely 🤎 We should be concentrating on saving Farmland birds rather than messing around with Sea Eagles, Cranes & Storks imo. I guess CB’s aren’t poster birds though. 🙄

Our machinery sale that is being conducted by ⁦@Brownandcorural⁩ finishes tomorrow from 12:00 midday. For more details of what is available please view the link below. Online Timed Auction of Modern Farm Machinery & Equipment bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/aucti…

The kids are absolutely making this lambing. Enthusiastic, cheerful, hard working and really capable. The best thing about having the farm is watching the kids grow up on it, it's a truly rare childhood and they are making the very most of it. This is what it's all about.

Easy to say you support any number of things when you personally don't have to deal with the consequences.

Please share …… scum 😡😡

We have plenty of hoggett (lamb) available in our farm shop for Easter roasts. Also the last few packs of sausages from our Tamworth pigs. Four big packs for £20. Leg or shoulder of hoggett is about £39, or half a Hogg for £120. Grass fed from a Cumbrian fellside.