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Bert Westhoff retweeted
"Just grow crops on that land instead of raising cattle." Lovely idea. Have you ever actually stood on it? I mean the hard country, the two-thirds of British farmland that can grow nothing else. The land the postcards leave out. Go and look at what it actually is. It is a Cumbrian fell at four hundred metres, where the soil is shallower than your hand is long and the rain comes in sideways for most of the year. It is a Welsh hillside so steep that a tractor on it becomes a cautionary tale, retold in the pub for a generation. It is the high Pennines, where the frost hangs on into June and the wind has strong opinions about anything that dares to grow upright. It is Dartmoor, the Highlands, and the moor above your nearest market town: peat, bracken and acid grass, where the closest thing to an arable field is wishful thinking. Nobody is hoarding these places. No farmer is sitting on prime wheat country out of spite, running cattle on it for a laugh. On this ground, the grazing animal is the entire harvest. There is no better crop for it to be blocking. Sow wheat on a fell and it will sprout, shiver, take one look at the weather, and give up. Scatter quinoa across mid-Wales and the sheep will watch it fail with the calm of creatures who have seen this film before. The people demanding crops have mistaken a relief map for a menu. They are ordering dishes the land was never able to serve. Strip the animals off these hills and you free up nothing for vegetables. You simply switch the food production off and hand the rain back to the bracken. Grass grows there because nothing else will. The cow eats it because nothing else can. That is the entire arrangement, and it is the only one on the table. So before you redraw British farming from a laptop, go and stand on the land you mean to convert. Wear good boots. It will not have changed its mind by the time you arrive.
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Vandaag staan we op de @Proefboerderij de Rusthoeve in Colijnsplaat met de innovatieve fungiciden #ZamproPlus en #Divexo in de aardappelen.
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De gewassluiting komt snel dichterbij en daarmee ook het risico op #cercospora. Een tijdige 1e bespuiting, het juiste spuitinterval en afwisseling van werkzame stoffen zijn nu essentieel. Bereid uw bladschimmelstrategie op tijd voor. #suikerbieten bit.ly/4ej8NIw
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Ik heb Van Essen niet bij voorbaar beoordeeld. Nu wel. Gewogen en ongeschikt bevonden want hij snapt de basis van landbouwkringloop niet eens.
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Gelooft er werkelijk iemand dat dit nieuwe verdienmodel een oplossing is? En zo ja, een oplossing waarvoor dan?
Eindelijk kunnen boeren met RENURE aan de slag! Dat is goed nieuws voor zowel boeren als het milieu. Meer weten? Kijk op rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nie…
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Even the UN admits it now! A new UN report documents Hamas publicly executing, torturing, and maiming Palestinians in Gaza: blindfolded men shot in public squares, beatings with metal pipes, deliberately broken bones, and public punishments designed to spread fear. For years, many tried to portray Hamas as freedom fighters. The reality is much simpler: Hamas terrorizes Israelis and Palestinians alike.
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Replying to @ministerLVVN
Het is in de kern van de zaak geen goed nieuws. Renure maak je uit organische mest. Dus je geeft veel geld en energie uit aan maken van mest uit mest. Alsof je een brood gaat malen om meel voor een brood te maken.... Organische mest is prima, waardevol. Iedereem die Renure als een verbetering ziet snapt niet genoeg van landbouw. Het is een dure escape voor de melkveehouder bij gebrek aan betere maatregelen.
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Schuivende panelen. We zijn nog nooit zo schoon geweest
The world hasn't suddenly become more polluted. Humans have just gotten better at observing what was already there.
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Uienvlieg bestrijden met Nemasys Outdoor. Bekijk hier het advies: bit.ly/4olzXTK
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Ancel Keys >has data from 22 countries >cherry-picks 7 that fit his hypothesis >ignores France, Switzerland, West Germany, all of whom eat butter and have low heart disease >publishes the result as "the Seven Countries Study" >becomes the most cited nutrition researcher of the 20th century >destroys the careers of any scientist who points out the missing fifteen countries >creates the dietary guidelines that 350 million Americans and 60 million Britons will follow for the next seventy years >watches obesity, diabetes, and heart disease climb every year of his career >later quietly admits dietary cholesterol doesn't really affect blood cholesterol >quietly retires to the Mediterranean >lives to 100 eating butter, cheese, eggs, and red meat >never apologises >never recants >never gives the careers back >"the science is settled, don't question it"
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Heeft dus geen donder met stikstof te maken. Beheer, beheer, beheer...
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Overheard at the Bell, a Thursday, the regulars three deep at the bar and the talk, as it increasingly is, about the animals. "You'll have heard Dave's goat got into the churchyard again." "He did the east section. Vicar's delighted. Saved the PCC a fortune." "My niece follows it all on her phone. Knows more about that bull in Herefordshire than she does about her own family." "There's a calf now, in Wales. A bison. First in six thousand years, they reckon." "Get away." "It's true. Ginger thing. She showed me. I'll be honest with you, I had a look at it for longer than I'd admit to." The landlord, drawing a pint, not looking up: "We've all had a look. Don't pretend you haven't, Trevor." A silence, of the comfortable kind. "Funny, isn't it. Half the telly telling us the farming's killing the planet, and then you see the goat clearing the churchyard and the old boy's bull with his wildflowers, and you think, well, that doesn't look like it's killing anything." "It's not killing anything. It's the only thing round here that's doing any good." "To the goat, then." "To the goat." And they drank to a goat in Devon that none of them have met, in a pub in a different county, because the thing about these animals is that they have stopped being somebody's livestock and started being something a village holds in common, a shared good, a piece of news that is, for once, not bad. The landlord rang the bell for last orders. Nobody mentioned the goat had a name. They all knew it. You do not need to say Keith's name at the Bell. Everyone has already had a look.
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Tja; er zijn zoveel sporten die op professioneel niveau (helaas) niet levensvatbaar zijn. Dan moet je je maar interessant genoeg maken….. Levensvatbaarheid vrouwenvoetbal op de tocht: 'Geen sprake meer van professioneel voetbal' /via @NOSsport nos.nl/l/2617749
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Comandantes de Hamás: "Nuestro problema no es solo Palestina, nuestro problema es matar a todos los no musulmanes. Perseguiremos a judíos y cristianos en todo el mundo. ¡O se convierten al islam o los mataremos!" Esto no te lo muestran los medios. Pregúntate por qué.
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€1500 per huishouden is een koopje @eigenhuis 🤔
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Enkele larven uit een met #NemasysOutdoor behandeld perceel #uien met hoge druk uienvlieg gehaald, om te kijken wat het doet. Goede werking; de aaltjes zijn keurig terug te vinden in de larven van de #uienvlieg.
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Is het anders groter dan? Gezien de vierkantemeterprijzen zou ik het veld ook zo klein mogelijk houden. Zit een veld vaker tegen de maximale grootte dan? Ieren verkleinen veld voor duel met Oranje: 'Als ze denken dat ze zo kunnen winnen...' /via @NOSsport nos.nl/l/2617161
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