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The recently planted longest single run of new #hedging on the farm; over 850 metres! Many thanks to UK taxpayers for their contribution without which it wouldn’t be here. Will try to get it to establish well.

The timing of this, before the effects of a Global fertilizer shock hits, could not be worse.

‘The smallest U.S. winter wheat harvest since 1965”.

@PhilNash2 Ours is. 🥊

Bloody glad our maize isn’t up yet 🥶

I wonder if Starmer’s Dad used to make crowbars? 🤔

@kim_kwizera @Kwigabyanze Rat shit cruise ship.

@Kwigabyanze What Is the movie called ?

WTF😱

@DaleVince It’s pretty simple; if agronomic tools are restricted and/or banned food prices go up even faster.

Toxic chemicals used as weed killers to enable better crop growth is one thing. But spraying them on crops just before harvest to dry them out (not fight weeds in any way) - is a step too far. Glyphosate Based Herbicides are clearly linked to cancers and other human health harm - the acronym is darkly ironic - GBH. That’s what these toxic chemicals cause. We have an opportunity to narrow the use of this toxic group of chemicals, to their original purpose and avoid a large degree of GBH - from our food. standard.co.uk/business/busin…

@thegraingeek Had a few issues here too this Winter. Had to re-clean 2 batches.

@DavidButler34 Yes. Thought I’d done a good job, but there were still plenty in the corners as I’ve got to the back of the shed.

first year in a long time we've had bugs. Little b@stards are hard to get rid of.

@jonathanfg97120 @YourAnonNews Everything changes. For starters the World’s religions freak out! Our collective self-image and role in the Universe totally changes. Are “they” benevolent or hostile? Do “they” have a ‘look-don’t touch’ policy or do they tinker? If they have got here….we can get ‘there’!

@YourAnonNews It doesn't matter if we are being visited or not by aliens. Nothing changes. Besides, most reasonable people already accept as fact that intelligent life exists elsewhere as the vastness of the universe makes it highly improbable we are alone.

We're hearing around July 8th Trump is going to tell the world that humanity is being visited by various species from outer space. True or not, it's kinda horrible that Trump could be the one that breaks the news to humanity given all the lies he tells. No one would believe him.

@ProfBillMcGuire (After over fifty years of use.)

@ProfBillMcGuire Fine. Another 5%+ added to the cost of food then.

Oh. How terrible. Imagine being forced to stop using this abominable product theguardian.com/environment/20…

Now we’re farming.

BBC Newsnight humiliates President Trump Victoria Derbyshire reads out some of President Trump's nonsensical posts and statements about Iran The panel then all agree that it's all a bit bonkers

Three people just died of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. The strain kills nearly 40% of the people it infects. And yet no virologist on earth is panicking about a pandemic, because the reason it stays small is one of the strangest rules in disease science. The rule is simple. The deadlier a virus is, the harder it is to spread. If a virus kills you in days, you can't ride a bus, board a plane, or even leave the hospital. You're in a bed or a body bag. Either way, the virus killed its only ride. Hantavirus has been around for at least 70 years, but fewer than 1,000 Americans have ever caught it. The CDC says it kills 38% of those who do. The cruise ship strain, called Andes, kills closer to 40%. If hantavirus spread like COVID, it would kill billions. But it can't. Most hantaviruses spread only one way. You breathe in tiny dust particles from rat or mouse pee, droppings, or spit. No mice in your house, no virus. The cruise ship is the rare exception, because the Andes strain can spread between people, but it usually needs close contact like spouses sharing a bed. A Johns Hopkins virologist called Andes spread "unbelievably rare." Compare it to the viruses that scared the world. Ebola kills 60 to 90% of people, but only through bodily fluids and only late in the illness, so each patient passes it to fewer than 2 others. SARS killed 10% before being wiped out in 8 months. MERS killed 35% but never spread far beyond the Middle East. None of them became pandemics, because the spread was always too slow. Then COVID showed up. It killed about 1 in every 100 people who caught it. That is almost nothing compared to hantavirus. But COVID was mild enough that you could work for a week without knowing. You would ride the bus, hug your kid, eat lunch with a coworker, and infect four other people. It killed 7 million. Flu works the same way. Mild fever, sore throat, but you still drag yourself to school or the office. The virus walks right into the next host. Hantavirus is the opposite. Within 4 to 10 days, your lungs fill with fluid. There's no medicine that fights it and no vaccine to prevent it. The only treatment is a machine that breathes for you, and even that just cuts the death rate from 50% to 20%. Every outbreak, from 3,200 UN soldiers in the Korean War, to the 1993 Four Corners cases, to Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa last year, traces back to mice. The viruses that worry scientists are the boring ones. The ones that give you a sniffle for a week and let you walk around the city while you're contagious. Hantavirus, brutal as it is, never had the spread to do real damage.

@WarMonitor3 What…another deadline?

Trump-“Iran has one week to sign a deal.”

@ken_beckfoot1 @wheat_daddy @BBCRadioLincs Do you understand the reasons/circumstances why it might be used for crop dessication for specific crops in some harvest seasons?

@wheat_daddy @BBCRadioLincs I hope it’s banned for desiccating crops prior to harvest for obvious reasons

About to go on @BBCRadioLincs talking about #Glyphosate Should be interesting!

@peamanruss Metal and diesel.

Challenge, how to get this into a seedbed! 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🫛

My monologue from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil: As often happens with President Trump, it’s not long before you end up in fantasyland.  Yesterday, in a long and at times incoherent social media post, he suddenly announced the US would start ‘guiding’ — his word —  commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, where they have been stranded by his War on Iran.  On the face of it — at last an effort to unblock this vital supply route for the global economy.  Of course, it turned out to be no such thing. There will be no US Navy escort for stranded ships to go through the Strait in convoy. Or the navies of any other countries for that matter.  Just a so-called ‘co-ordination cell’ involving countries, insurance companies and shipping lines sharing data. Trump has dubbed it ‘Project Freedom’. But there will be precious few ships freed by this latest wheeze.  The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations agency, which works in tandem with the Royal Navy, said this morning the security threat level in the Strait remained ‘critical’. As long as that’s the case ships won’t risk the passage without Iran’s approval.  And that was before we had Iran claiming this morning to have hit a US frigate. America is categorical that none of its ships has been hit.  At first Tehran didn’t deign to respond to Trump’s latest initiative. But this morning Iran warned it would attack any commercial ships or US warships that tried to transit the Strait without its permission, reminding everyone it was in control of the Strait, which, of course, it wasn’t before Trump began his attacks on Iran.  Over 1,600 ships are now trapped on either side of the Strait. Only those of whom Iran approves and prepared to stump up $2m per ship to Tehran are allowed through. The truth is Trump has no idea how to reopen the Strait — or how to bring his war to an acceptable end.  He’s just rejected Iran’s latest peace proposals, which were full of unacceptable nonsense — suggesting the tyrants of Tehran are still in no rush for peace. But what happens next is anybody’s guess.  Mine is that Trump will simply play for time, as he has in Gaza. Last year, to much fanfare, he announced peace had broken out in the strip and reconstruction would begin.  Since when, there’s been very little peace and no reconstruction. But our attention has moved on. Gaza makes few headlines these days, even though it’s still grim on the ground.  Trump will be hoping for the same attention deficit towards Iran. Both sides have stopped raining down missiles, bombs and drones on each other. Not much else is happening. Nothing to see here. Let’s move along.  However, there is one mighty difference with Gaza: the Strait of Hormuz. The longer that stays closed the more the global economy is likely to be crippled. That’s already happening in Asia, where shortages are spreading and economies grinding to a halt.  The same fate is heading our way, slowly but surely. We are heading for shortages and massive price rises in all manner of materials — not just oil and gas — but jet fuel, helium, naphtha, fertilisers  — about which we know little but which are, in fact, vital to normal life.  No jet fuel, no flying.  No helium, no microchips, no microchips, no cars or household appliances, never mind the AI developments currently keeping the US stock market afloat.  No fertilisers, no food.  No naphtha, no building blocks for everything from textiles to rubber to car parts.  If, come June, the Strait is still closed then we will be entering a summer of misery thanks to Trump’s War. The chances grow by the day.  It has dawned on Tehran that controlling the Strait is a far more powerful weapon than a nuclear bomb. Though it’s not giving up on that either.  As the rest of us suffer, Trump will be declaring a fantasy victory. Which makes you wonder: if this is victory, what would defeat look like?

Rats on cruise ships?! 🐀 Send in @RedTractorFood!

@cattlefinishers Frosts gone I think; timing is good!

Let it grow, let it grow. To cold to be drilling maize? 🌽❄️🤔 #Harvest26