freelance arable farming journalist, East of England correspondent for Farmers Weekly and co-host of the Farmers Weekly podcast
Bedfordshire, UK
Joined September 2009
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Love this - what a lineup @FarmersWeekly
Something you don't see very often - six past (and present) Business Editors of Farmers Weekly! @FarmersWeekly @GAJinfo
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Something you don't see very often - six past (and present) Business Editors of Farmers Weekly! @FarmersWeekly @GAJinfo
James Rebanks: ‘We’re the stupidest country when it comes to farming’
thetimes.com/article/c1730aa…
A faulty application procedure adding to the stress, disappointment and business uncertainty created by #SFI26
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This Labour government must wake up and realise the hugely damaging consequences of their Family Farm Tax.
It actively disincentivises a farmer from investing in water storage, and building more on farm resilience in food production.
The government must get real if they are serious about food security and water security.
Their £15 million announcement to ‘help’ farmers build reservoirs, was nothing more than headline grabbing politics.
👉 telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Burnham announces £65m drought package for English farmers - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/news/farm-policy/b…
Porridge and beer prices to rise then?
How is the prolonged extreme hot and dry weather affecting yields this harvest? 🌡️
AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Sector Director Anthony Hopkins discusses the latest findings from the second harvest report.
Watch the update and visit bit.ly/45ogXeP to read the full report.
Re drought @DefraGovUK @StephenMorganMP @angelaeagle the silence is deafening - there are some immediate relief measures such as grazing exemptions that could be implemented to help farms - what’s the hold up?
Chickpeas: An alternative break crop for hotter summers? - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/arable/pulses/chic…
Oh the irony - you harvest a field to produce food and drink - then the consumer comes along and picnics in your field on such goods, leaving behind all the packaging 🤬😡🤬
Chickpeas - a crop that can take all the heat you can throw at it!
Very timely @RTKfarmer
Going, going……
“….within the range of uptake scenarios we expected…”
defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/202…
We need a more constructive conversation.
This isn’t new support - it’s the re-opening of a scheme that was shut without warning. The budget will stretch to c.5000 agreements.
And without action on spiralling farm costs, there won’t be any crops for either food or feed.
Good news. But what a crazy world we live in, we’ve been paying farmers for decades to trash wildlife and the countryside, in the name of industrial food production - growing ever greater amounts of crops to feed to ever greater numbers of animals in factory farms - to achieve ever greater diminishing returns, nutritionally - as well as degradation of nature. A recent report from Compassion in World Farming makes this clear - if we stopped feeding the cereals we grow to animals and fed humans instead - we could feed 16 million more people using the same amount of land. We need to change what we chew. This new support is a welcome step.
gov.uk/government/news/290m-…
Farming is changing, to coin a phrase. Sugar beet growing with a clover understorey - not something I’ve ever seen before @ElvedenEstate @BritishSugar @SyngentaUK
It’s not just about making TV programmes at Diddly Squat…..
Cereals host farm fights market volatility with local focus - Farmers Weekly fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-manage…
