Nick Fone

.@FarmDroidUK @DroidFarm

@JeremyClarkson @RAFBrizeNorton Looking down at a Chinook following the river never gets old either. Some skill. 👌🏼

Waiting for tankers. Standard…. Digestate going to to herbal leys in South Somerset @anglianagmedia @JRileyAgri

Herbal ley silage safely in the clamp in perfect conditions. @Fendt_UKIreland @HuntForestGroup

I travelled by train from Edinburgh to London today. I must have passed a thousand fields on the way yet I didn’t see a single farmer. What are these people doing all day? Probably sat on their butts watching GBNews and moaning about paying tax as the rest of us work. Disgusting

@mervyn_bailey No rugby tomorrow…

Roadside ash getting pinched. Some already has die back to clearing it. The real work starts in the morning

@FavColour_Green @DogImaginary @Sarahcoxon8 Every day a school day, thank you. Excellent thread explaining hedgerow management. Isn’t it great how engaged people can become when a balanced, well-informed perspective is clearly presented?

@NickFoneMedia @DogImaginary @Sarahcoxon8 Fewer than half of our hedges are enclosure act hedges, the rest are a lot older (some up to 5000 years!) BUT you are very right that they are a man-managed habitat and require periodic management to survive. Something we forget at their peril!

I was at a *fabulous* farm in Kent yesterday talking hedges They'd organised a coppicing demonstration for the cluster group. This was a 25year old hawthorn maiden hedge. Coppicing will thicken this up from the base, turning each stem into a multi-stemmed bush

@DogImaginary @FavColour_Green @Sarahcoxon8 We’ve just done a 300m stretch alongside a footpath and were bracing ourselves for backlash from members of the public who didn’t understand what we were doing. Quite the reverse, everyone has been very supportive

@DogImaginary @FavColour_Green @Sarahcoxon8 Coppicing hedges appears drastic but is the most effective way to generate fresh regrowth from the base to make for thick, wildlife-friendly hedge within a year. Done rotationally, within ten years an entire farm can have top class wildlife corridors right round it.

@davidpurdysoils Thoroughly deserved, well done David

Many of you who know me well will be aware that 2024 has been hugely challenging for me and this little event had to be postponed. But I was now able graduate with a PhD in soil science. Thank you to all who have helped me on the journey you know who you are.

Interesting day in Dumfries looking at different ways of chopping wholecrop beans @profitractors @KelvinCaveLtd @KroneUK @CLAAS_UK @UKAerialPhotos

Agricultural technology is truly a game changer.

Herbal ley 2025 done ✔️ @Fendt_UKIreland 726 first try. Dependable old @NHAG_UKandROI TL100A on the @NrhEngineering rolls @LlpSeeds

✋🏿11. Snickers

What is this sorcery.....that would have made my life so much easier!

.@profitractors know what machine this is?

@AW_ARobinson @FarmersWeekly Rapid about-turn from @HMRCgovuk - benefit in kind changes reversed for pick-ups as a result of farmer and motor industry feedback - input from @NFUtweets or @TheNAAC ???? @OldMillAFP

@FarmersWeekly Good news as HMRC have back tracked today and double cab pickups will remain as commercial vehicles for tax purposes and benefit in kind .

⚠️ HMRC has announced a taxation change from 1 July 2024 that will raise the charges for the majority of double-cab pickup owners. Under the new rules, double-cab pickups will be classed as company cars – not vans – for taxation purposes. FULL STORY: fwi.co.uk/business/hmrc-…

@suesustainable @Slug_95 Sadly your ‘wrong assumptions’ only serve to diminish your argument which is principle is sound. The stubble is clearly cereal residue. We’d all love to see green covers year round but the reality is that it’s not always possible. @timstephensuk