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@Affronter84 @FarmingUK its more the govt subserdising cheaper food at the comsumer end - most countries do it. ours do it in the form of grants. however i wouldnt trust welsh govt to run a farm business either.

@Ali_F_Baa @FarmingUK Grants? Can't they run their farm business well then?

🚜🧺 Wales eyes organic school lunches: 25% of veg could be organic by 2030 farminguk.com/News/quarter-o…

@Rosewood_Farm it'd be nice though - hp goes up the better your grade

And both are a huge cost to the industry- we aren’t given tractors when we leave farming college

@Affronter84 @FarmingUK if the public are prepared to buy from their local farmers then i cant see why not farmers follow the market and like any good business they follw the grants put out b y the govt. so i guess it is on the welsh labour govt to back farmers.

@FarmingUK Why not 100%? Are Welsh farmers not up to the task?

@FlowerdewBob tbh at that point you go through the wall/

let me guess, it opens this way....

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@TrooperSnooks agreed but also if it does get a bit shovey and pushy sometimes sharp bit of steel is useful

When push comes to shove, steel is important, but you can't eat steel.

@DerekTheWeather good

More sunny and warmer weather over the next few days but a change on the way! Saturday the warmest day of the weekend. Sunny for a while but cloud increasing with some rain. Sunday cooler and breezier with sunny intervals and scattered showers. Changeable and mixed next week.

@herdyshepherd1 hd a titchling this morning knew that itd not make it still tubed the littleun mum hadnt come into milk either.. still sad/

Lost a lamb half an hour ago. I’ve lambed sheep for 40+ years but it still knocks my guts out when we lose one, and we inevitably do. Often its just bad luck, you go to one field instead of the other and the 5 mins that takes is the difference between saving one or not.

@TrooperSnooks @AldeBooks i could be but its a bit of a treck.. more likely with @RichPrideaux playing with the deathsaw./

If you are in Aldeburgh for the May bank holiday weekend, pop in to @AldeBooks. If we haven't already drunk it all, there's a glass of wine waiting for you, and my book.

@stuttonsparrows @BBCr4today agreed

Discussion on @BBCr4today re Right to Roam. You can be as responsible as you like, but your presence alone will normally be a disturbance and wildlife will then avoid those areas.

In all honesty I just think we need to label everything as it is. If it’s chlorine washed make it have a massive label on it. If it’s used pesticides in production that are harmful and banned here make it have a massive label on it. If it’s been slaughtered non stun stick a massive label on it. British produced? Plaster that on the label and educate the public about why that matters and what the difference is. Just label everything in favour of buying British. You can buy a British chicken for a couple of £, I fail to see how an imported chlorine washed chicken can cost much less and stick a chlorine washed label on it and the public can choose what they buy. Get the labelling right and educate the public on why Buying British is superior is my take on trade deals, frankly including EU produce which is largely not up to our standards either!

@andyrumming bring it to groundswell and gimme some lessons.

Recently discovered and have now been bingeing on Yellowstone, bought a denim jacket last week, had this delivered today…… #cattle

@HomesteadPembs @herdyshepherd1 @ProfTimLang @DoctorChrisVT @csmaje @claireratinon @JRfromStrickley Speaker of the house....

@herdyshepherd1 @ProfTimLang @DoctorChrisVT @csmaje @claireratinon @JRfromStrickley I think you’ve missed one very important name off the list ….

Ok let’s play @ProfTimLang - food security @DoctorChrisVT - food health Minette Batters - farming reality Sue Pritchard - agro-ecology @csmaje - small farms @claireratinon - horticulture @JRfromStrickley - nature friendly Prof Tim Jackson - food system analyst

@FavColour_Green theyve spray painted it with camo paint ... cunning

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@SarahShuffell @herdyshepherd1 That is awesome I shall have to make some time to come visit!

@herdyshepherd1 Haven’t made any hay for three years for my ewes. Standing hay and planned grazing has got them through the winter.

I’m sure some regen bale grazing is just made up work… the cows seem to be in fields with way more grass than ours At modest stocking densities with good grazing planning and daily movement I reckon we don’t need it

Yet another attack on UK farmers. ……… what did we do to deserve so much hate from this @UKLabour government ? This is state sponsored theft ☹️ This is how dictatorships and communists operate …… this is not Great Britain

@ZwartblesIE wht bout furthest left then... i could hve told you the furthest right would be no yoke.... its a dog.

On left a double yoke egg, middle egg is a normal one & right hand egg has no yoke at all

@FlowerdewBob @littlegreentip1 do we pee on the pillows? or just the feathers?

@littlegreentip1 you're doing great, just hoping to save you effort those glazing sheets will make great cloche on top but plastic bubble wrap better to keep warmth & gases in when remaking mix in loads fresh grass clippings -will boost re-heat plus pee & feathers from old pillows

And now it’s full of shit 🤣🤣🤣 #homemade #growyourown #smallholding #homesteading #reuse #zerowaste