John P.....

@GoodwinMJ Well said on Dewbs & Co this evening, you have expressed my thoughts entirely.

The November futures price for wheat has just slumped to £167 a tonne, and Everyone is about ready to chuck their combine in a ditch and open a bloody vape shop. Twenty years ago, wheat was fetching £120–£140 a tonne, and here we are in 2025, with prices barely budging while the cost of everything—fuel, fertiliser, a pint at the pub—has shot through the roof like a rocket. It’s a disgrace, and I’m not mincing words here: the government’s handling of farmers is an absolute, steaming pile of incompetence. Two years ago, some suited pillock in a think tank told us £200 a tonne was the “new normal” for wheat because of inflation. Inflation! That magical word that’s supposed to explain why your diesel costs more than a Mayfair flat but your crops are worth less than a used caravan ! Now we’re back in the £160s, and farmers are expected to pull off yields of 9 or 10 tonnes a hectare just to break even. Good luck with that when we’ve had a spring so dry it made the Sahara look like a sodding swamp. The average yield’s more like 7 or 8 tonnes, and that’s if your field hasn’t been flattened by a biblical storm or nibbled to death by rabbits. And don’t get me started on the government. Oh, they love banging on about “food security” while sipping overpriced lattes in Westminster, but what have they actually done for farmers? Bugger all, that’s what. The post-Brexit dream of a golden age for British agriculture? Utter tosh. The shift to that Environmental Land Management malarkey has been a bureaucratic cock-up of epic proportions—payments late, slashed, or lost in some civil servant’s inbox. Then there’s the genius move of signing a trade deal letting 1.4 billion litres of cheap American ethanol flood our shores, which could shut down our bioethanol plants like Vivergo and Ensus. That’s less demand for our wheat and a CO2 shortage that’ll bugger up everything from fizzy drinks to frozen chips. Well done, lads. Top marks. Farmers are at breaking point, and who can blame them? You try waking up at 4 a.m. to wrestle a broken baler, only to find out your crop’s worth less than the diesel you burned to harvest it. The National Farmers’ Union says mental health helplines are ringing off the hook. This is the perfect storm, isn’t it? Low prices, sky-high costs, and a government that couldn’t organise a pee-up in a brewery. The 2025 harvest might hit 12.8 million tonnes—up 17% because we planted more—but yields are patchy thanks to that godawful dry spring, the worst in 150 years in some parts. Where does it stop? Nobody knows. The futures market’s a casino run by idiots, and the government’s too busy faffing about with net-zero targets to notice the countryside’s on its knees. If they don’t pull their fingers out and start protecting farmers—proper subsidies, fair trade deals, less red tape—then British agriculture’s going to end up like my old Land Rover: knackered, abandoned, and good for nothing but scrap. Mrs C out ! thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?thre…

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October 7, 2023: Palestinian Muslim terrorists invaded Israel from Gaza, broke into a house where they found Jewish mother and 2 toddler sons. They executed the mother in front of the children, and rushed to film themselves with the children and post it online, to make sure IDF sees the human shields. This is what Muslims and useful idiots in the west celebrate and embrace. Please share this post if you support Israel’s right to defend its people against Islamic terrorism! Islam is a crime against humanity.

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Flat out this weekend mowing & turning grass, winter feed ready for baling tomorrow. Cows & calves soaking up the sun (less keen on the flies!) and the shearlings nearly ready for sale. 🇬🇧🚜

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DONE.

The last run, with a chippy tea waiting.

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#harvest25 is officially over. Thanks very much to everyone who took part, great work #teamewp 👌

Both the grammar in this tweet and the political message hidden within it trouble me, deeply ‘more financially as well as’ And basically the message seems to be ‘hey peasants, mend nature for free, whilst also producing the cheapest and most plentiful food in human history’

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