I was asked to sponsor our kids rugby kit and decided rather than put our business name on it I’d do this… Good for farming and the community. Would be great to see this all round the UK🇬🇧🐑🐄🐂🚜🌾🐓🐖 #BackBritishFarming

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism. One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled. The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy. Meanwhile, in Cheshire. A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain. She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco. To recap. 600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water. Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food. The shopper picks the almond. She has been told this is the ethical position. The aquifer would like a word.

#bluebell update 😍👌

I’ve not posted on here for a long time but here’s one for the old school people that are still around… first #bluebells ❤️👍

“We are a rich country and can import our food”.

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… #SaveFamilyFarms #StopTheFamilyFarmTax #BackBritishBusiness #NoToUnfairTax

In a report commissioned from CBI Economics, evidence suggests (to nobody's surprise) that rather than increasing tax take, the proposed changes to APR/BPR will overall lead to a net loss of £1.9bn over the Parliament. Keir Starmer explained to the Gov't Liaison Committee that this was a revenue-raising measure and nothing more. Given the evidence shows it will actually cost the Treasury money, the best thing to do now would be to reverse the proposal. scribd.com/document/87054656…

I don’t understand this It’s like saying we don’t need nurses because some of them voted for BREXIT It is nonsense Even if all nurses voted for BREXIT we’d still need healthcare and in it lots of nurses We wouldn’t then say ‘oh, nurses had it coming’

The family farm tax is a disaster for Britain's food security and will rob many young people of the opportunity to farm. If you agree with the @LibDems that the Government should axe the family farm tax then please sign and share our petition today: libdems.org.uk/farm

The latest goverment guff about farming is… “The problem with farming is the lack of profitability” This is a short thread on why this sensible-sounding focus should be treated with great suspicion… A 🧵

The trouble with “growth at all costs” is there’s a price to pay…

£2.5bn for British steel. That’s the same as the annual budget for agriculture…. Steel industry employs 33,700 - contributes £1.8bn to the economy 🏭 Agriculture employs 285,000 - contributes £13.7bn to the economy 🌾

Steel is important. Food more so. Why are they straining every sinew to save one, and destroy the other?

Supply down Demand rising Cost up Food price inflation is gonna get off the chart soon - total insanity

First #bluebell 😍👍

Are they F :-) They’ve literally invited a committee of wolves to discuss the safety for Red Riding Hood and her grandmother

Good luck young man. You’re embarking on a wonderful journey. It won’t be easy, but nothing worth doing is. Don’t over celebrate the victories and don’t berate yourself too much when things go wrong (they will!) Work hard, be patient, be observant, be kind and you’ll do great 👍

Farming in the UK is now just everyone walking around in a daze since last October and asking "What the hell do we do now" , every single time this government makes an announcement...

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment @ClaudeMalhuret

Some brilliant work and a really interesting read from James. Unfortunately our government don’t give a fuck about us…

The UK government has chosen to torpedo individual families that are unlucky enough to be caught in this perverse game of agricultural Russian roulette… They have no idea… When did damaging the people that feed the people become a good idea? The shame of it @UKLabour