Mark Wilson

@Wyefarm @JeremyClarkson Got bushel weights back on Extase and they are 83. Good protein and hagberg but was told so are every one else's. Premium over feed will be nowt then! Based on good bushel I've upgraded harvest from crap to still crap.

@JeremyClarkson Worst harvest of my life to date. Hoping it'll be my '76 that Dad keeps telling me about. In other news, if you want to open a Herefordshire division of the farm shop I've got plenty of space in my grainstore. 😔

It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food. If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.

@SpudSlingsby @Nick_Wilson3 I certainly don't agree with everything Trump says or does, but seeing him talk about how he supports US farmers with no tax with Starmer next to him was great.

@Nick_Wilson3 We're not in inspiring times for sure. The sheep economics will look better than the arable your end I guess?

Nice clean stubbles. That’s where the good news ends. Yields in this part of Yorkshire are s***e. Worse than last year

@SpudSlingsby @Wyefarm @Nick_Wilson3 Mine vary from not too bad to I wish someone else was looking down at it from the combine seat! Unfortunately it's more of the latter!

@Wyefarm @Nick_Wilson3 *grandchildren

@Rhinos_Revenge So pleased I got to see him twice last year when he supported Quo. He spoke about his illness and said he was wearing a hat because he was losing his hair. A very open and honest thing to do. It's obvious from all the comments in the media he was a well liked bloke. A sad day.

I was deeply saddened to hear of Mike's passing. He was a true fighter and a lovely lovely man. Every time I met him he was full of life, friendly, making light of his obvious very difficult situation when his illness returned,

@georgewdunn @saveoldmaltonc1 @Keir_Starmer @DanielZeichner @10DowningStreet @SteveReedMP Same as all his other promises, worthless.

@saveoldmaltonc1 How does this square with what you promised tenant farmers @Keir_Starmer?

🧵Yesterday @mtpennycook on behalf of @AngelaRayner allowed the @Harmony_Energy_ appeal for #solar and #bess in #malton We are devastated at this decision which will cause immeasurable damage to our successful farming business and leaves is with a very uncertain future.

@SpudSlingsby Hard luck Andrew. Better come back to the pub next week. I still owe you a pint.

It was great to make the top three, and we've had a lovely evening, but sadly we've not increased the polishing workload at Slingsby #NFAWARDS2025

At the #NFAAWARDS2025 #proudfinalist

@SpudSlingsby @spud_yorkshire @gazetteherald All the expense involved having to get new headed note paper and other essential stuff

@spud_yorkshire @gazetteherald The same affect as amalgamating drainage boards I'd imagine - more cost and less value to us on the ground as usual

NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNCIL: Council chiefs unveil plan to harmonise bin colours ift.tt/sEzIqFW

@Wyefarm At a time when we need all the support we can get, this is just idiotic.

There's a village somewhere missing their idiot. 🤦🏼‍♂️

@SimonOKing @BBCBreakfast I wish you would stop giving warnings about every type of weather that comes. It's the middle of November so it should cold. You bang on about it being too warm due to climate change/crisis/catastrophe then when it gets cold that's not good either.

SNOW: there's been a southerly shift in the forecast for Monday night...N Eng / N Wales and Midlands at risk. ⚠️ Large accumulations over high ground (5-10cm) but settling even at low levels (1-3cm). I've got the very latest on @BBCBreakfast

@SpudSlingsby @RichMadd86 In farming you buy retail, sell wholesale and pay the haulage both ways

@RichMadd86 Typical, load all the pain onto the farmer like always

Carbon audit shows my winter beans to be a very negative figure. Excellent. Not sure why I take ownership of the input mileage and output carbon mileage too though!

@SpudSlingsby @cutlerstom More likely to commit to reduce livestock numbers!! I think I heard that planes were going to be exempt from any commitment. That really makes sense!🙄

@cutlerstom He's more likely to be carrying a collecting tin gathering donations for his mate Bill Gates than be doing anything useful

Looking forward to Kier Starmer getting us a good deal at the climate conference. Hopefully we will get a decent amount of money from the richer nations to help wean us off fossil fuels. 👍

@thevalleyfarmer @RBoldan Yes a Cock Pheasant. I remember we had one once. Thankfully a distant memory

@RBoldan Surely that's a lely cock pheasant? Ideally used on sloping fields...

Who knows what this is called?

@saveoldmaltonc1 @milkfarmerphil @tenantfarmers @byameliahill @AngelaRayner It's ridiculous that despite an industrial estate being near to you, non of the buildings have solar panels on the roof. Some of them are new so why not make it part of planning to put them on. There will be 1000's of acres of industrial roof tops in the country.

@milkfarmerphil @tenantfarmers @byameliahill @AngelaRayner The land is an integral part of our successful farming business.

We are @tenantfarmers who lease land from JRM wife’s estate and face losing much of our livelihood to a solar scheme to finance their lifestyle! I wonder if we will get a mention? 🤔 @byameliahill @AngelaRayner #backbritishfarming theguardian.com/politics/artic…

@jimclark67crop Mines 17. That was a big step up from 12 years ago

@HovinghamMark Drove one late 80s near Malton 20 foot header massive at the time 👍

Plenty of pictures on here of swanky new combines so I thought a picture of something more simple and peasant like! 1986 8080. Still going reasonably well-although it does have its moments!! Air con still works though.

@SpudSlingsby He works on Countryfile, enough said!!

What's this clot on? 'Housing developments can store flood water' Really Tom? He has approximately no idea of practical or profitable farming either.

@SpudSlingsby Well done ord lad. No excuse for missing Thursday pub night now.....🍺

...has finally finished planting potatoes! 30days since the start, 12 unplantable days, 9 where we had to stop for bad weather. It's been a chew on but we've got it done! Thank you to my team for their grit and determination, it is very much appreciated.

@SpudSlingsby @The_wilk79 I'm happy to stay a peasant. Doesn't mean I don't embrace new technologies and ideas though.

@The_wilk79 I've said for a while that I think ag is heading towards huge corporate or peasant farming, with little in between. Me? #proudpeasant

The future?

@SpudSlingsby @d_pdear @McCainUKIE I can't see Andrew at a Eurovision party dressed in sequins! Damn I've got that image in my head now!!

@d_pdear @McCainUKIE I have never been that desperate for something to do 🤔

Destoner pilot today cos Joe is badly #spuds24 #regenfries @McCainUKIE Simba drag, Metcalfe Shakerator, ridge, destone, plant. #Tillingischeating

@SpudSlingsby I agree. When you use can rinse on sprayer the water doesn't always clean the sloped bit near the opening. Bad can design

Surefill lids not tight. Cans without a clear strip to see what's in them. Scales not in litres. Foil tops. Bad to get clean. Etc etc It's high time design included considering the poor sod that is the sprayer operator. Syngenta probably the best of a very bad bunch #dobetter

I've been spraying since 1994. In that time, professionalism, tech, traceability and responsibility has moved on massively. Why then, is packaging so bloody crap, in every single way?