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@swaledalebirds_ My comedy embers on the subject have been well and truly dampened as you can imagine, and anyone with a practical perspective knows one size doesn’t fit all but some places have become quite desperate. Good luck with your project, everything helps

@bleating_lamb …blanket solution, which we know it isn’t, but it is the clarion call after any flood event. I obviously sympathise with your problems, we suffered a huge flood in 2019 so I know first hand how difficult it is to deal with. As for the ‘welcome’, I used a gif from a comedy…

For all the “dredging doesn’t work” people… 🫤

@paullewismoney U ok hun? 🤦🏼‍♂️

Are banks to blame for the problems of small and medium sized UK businesses? bit.ly/4v6OLro

Bitter, perhaps furious, possibly mad for bothering to reply, but when the financial losses from Environment Agency failings force you to walk away from a farm you’ve farmed for 50 years because they don’t repair lock gates, or maintain outfalls, as well as leaving the flushing gates broken for twenty years, and where it takes 4 years to get a job sheet raised to clear silt from blocking an outfall, you have a different perspective to other people. It took 3 weeks to get an emergency dispensation from Natural England to access the foreshore with excavators due to the ground nesting wetland birds - it was December, nothing was breeding…! Now I appreciate this is only one of nearly 7000 sites under management, but why should we be sympathetic about cutbacks or “improvised” strategies devised to support the funding shortfalls. If all 7000 are this badly managed there’s a national scandal taking place in plain sight. Nothing is winning here, since 1997 all these failings have wiped out almost all the ground dwelling wildlife in this area along the Humber over 10 times where every water channel was historically engineered by our local forebears. As an EFG member & Nature Friendly Farmer who has lived and worked in this landscape, I have experience how coexistence works. Even on the Wolds we know about slowing the flow but estuarial & fen farmers & communities need engineering works because you can’t fit a pint in a quart pot. Even slubbing out used to protect the dyke walls which now collapse from wildlife damage. So if a machine that keeps a 50 mile shipping lane open to 50,000 tonners emphasises that some engineering management is always required, is it okay to eventually criticise something like the Afsluitdijk. I’m happy to invite anyone to stand in my shoes, as long as they don’t mind sporadic periods of getting their feet wet. Good luck with your cluster, I hope it’s a more welcoming place.

@HPG_Farmer When your farm needs the EA to employ a contractor to use high pressure water to clean an outfall from a boat on the Humber you’ve encountered almost the full house of water engineering devices.

@bleating_lamb That’s about maintaining a shipping channel The solution is missed by the very slow flow No comparison with a British river away from the coast

@stevemiddi1 @MConnollyittm @LucyRigby @hmtreasury @johnmcdonnellMP @appgonifandffs @efgbricklayer @MLorrM @BankConfidenti1 @CarshaltonArt They’re waiting for all the victims to die

And still we wait for @LucyRigby & @hmtreasury to honour that commitment in Parliament to meet with @johnmcdonnellMP @appgonifandffs & their advisers. What are they waiting for, this is not going away... @efgbricklayer @MLorrM @bleating_lamb @BankConfidenti1 @CarshaltonArt @mickmor16921994 @james_glanville @EmilyBuchanan1 @jameshurley

Fraud "swaps" (IRHP) forced on and designed to bankrupt SMEs/individuals in UK/Ireland to bail out bank balance sheets is the biggest of all financial scandals I have ever seen. Which says a lot considering my history. 😡😡😡

@JRDixonltd The corporatisation of distribution, agriculture and processing continues apace with anorexic contracts with built in escalators ⬆️ ⬇️ bludgeoning family businesses in its path. Good luck with the future, be proud of the past.

It was time to take a bow one last time. I want to thank everyone at JR Dixon for being amazing you were the best and sad to see you go also I want to thank you guys out there for your continued support it meant the world. Time for the next chapter. Love you all Phil. 🤘🏻❤️❤️🤘🏻

Morning all. Its been a while but just wanted to finally say after 53 years we have closed the doors on #jrdixon an absolutely devastating time but we couldnt continue from increasing fuel costs and no rate movement from customers and lack of support from the shambles government

Another one bites the dust… ☹️ 😩 🚛

This should make people’s blood boil and the Board of Lloyds Bank should be forced to fall on their swords for the sustained injustice carried out on their behalf by various parties. This is why we need a judge led public inquiry now to bring this truth out into the open.

Frozen peas in UK 🇬🇧 are incredible value for money at £1.56/kg, whilst@in Finland 🇫🇮 £5.07/kg 🫛🫛🫛🫛

>be Britain >1984 >78% self-sufficient in food >95% self-sufficient in everything we can actually grow >coastline full of fish, country full of cattle, fields full of grain >fast forward forty years >2024 >62% self-sufficient in food >53% self-sufficient in fresh vegetables, lowest since records began >food trade deficit £42 billion and climbing >government response: take more farmland out of production for solar panels >also: tax family farms out of existence >also: sign trade deals with Mercosur for cheaper Brazilian beef >also: tell the public that domestic livestock is the climate problem >also: import the same beef from 6,000 miles away, on a diesel ship, off cleared rainforest >tell everyone this is the ethical position >tell everyone we are leaders in climate action >tell everyone the farmer is the villain >defeated Napoleon's blockade and the U-boat campaign on the strength of our own fields >now cannot grow our own broccoli >solution: another consultation >another framework >another minister >another report >due 2027

@EdwdPrice @johndotwills I’m on a “we don’t need mongy bog eyed Labour political advisors” vibe… Very surplus to requirement.

@johndotwills TBH as a farmer there are whole sectors of the economy which are essentially redundant to us.

I find the idea of the present government thinking that we are economically secure enough to have 'industries we can do without' a little concerning, to be frank.

@ArableSam @berndools Frequently told to go back to my own County if that helps…

@berndools Yeah but you “concerned citizens” and “journalists”

A few weeks of this weather and people will be telling me to go back to “your own country”

@TrooperSnooks @Teus56 @AndyBurnhamGM @DailyMail Chuck it out the window, out of sight out of mind

@AndyBurnhamGM @DailyMail Peruse any regional Farm-watch WhatsApp group and you will see the scale of flytipping, carried out without the landowners' knowledge, and the clean up, invariably being made at their own expense. Metropolitan blindness is seemingly alive and well in Manchester.

Thank you to the @DailyMail for their help with my campaign. 🙏🏻 Yes I do think we should tax landowners who allow their land to be turned into illegal waste dumps, like Bickershaw. 👍🏻

@WullieHalliday Make it make sense…

@bleating_lamb There already is a packaging tax levy of £228.82 per metric tonne, my son manages a label printing factory and they get hit with this tax as the weight of Abels printed is non recycled, but the waste they throw out is exempt but costs more due to landfill tax rates

If I wanted to destroy the British food industry I’d create a packaging tax for domestic industry at the same time as reducing tariffs on imports…

@CoopieBastards @TU_144_ @CurtisDaly_ 😂 thought it might be 🫩

@bleating_lamb @TU_144_ @CurtisDaly_ Burn out is when you feel a bit off cos you had to work a few hours and your homeopathist doesn’t know why cos your chakras seem aligned need to go to San Tropez to relax for 2 months

If you're a business owner, you are not working class. Calling for wage suppression is anti-working class. The reason why we have minimum wage laws is due to weak unions. Many European nations don't have a minimum wage due to collective bargaining.

@CarshaltonArt @stevemiddi1 @MConnollyittm @montypython @JohnCleese @mickmor16921994 “Listen, don't mention the hidden credit lines. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it…”

@stevemiddi1 @MConnollyittm @montypython @JohnCleese Great photo! 😁 You can include @bleating_lamb and @mickmor16921994 on the Python / Cleese fan front… Also a big fan of Peggy / aka Dogpool… Were they discussing a canine sequel to a Fish Called Wanda ???

I’m a lifetime Monty Python fan. My kids have seen Fawlty Towers once, I’ve seen it 30 times plus. My son buys an ugly dog & who gets to meet John Cleese… 😡😩

@StephensonC @EdwdPrice Looking for a level playing field… 🫠

@bleating_lamb @EdwdPrice Quite happy to farm without if we were competing on a level field.

@Rosewood_Farm The tales of the Doggerland tsunami and Ravenser Odd all lean towards a battle that can’t be fought, other than temporarily. But where do we draw the line, and Afsluitdijk (in my mind) is one of the wonders of the modern world…

@bleating_lamb My dad’s family looked at a farm on the coast near Withernsea before moving here - it’d be a mere small holding now.