Rob Halliday

We need nature friendly farming, not a rewilded UK where our food is imported and conscience exported. We have the climate and landscape to make this eminently achievable.

@front_ukrainian Being played like a fiddle

🥴Trump stated that he trusts Vladimir Putin more than any of the European allies of the United States. “Putin has also shown that at the moment he is not afraid of Europe or our European allies. He said that he has clearly expressed more trust in Putin than in any of our European allies,” reported journalist from MS NOW.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox We must stand up to Trump, and quickly, before he damages a mutually beneficial relationship. This has to be bigger than one man and he is the problem.

*ahem* 👇🏼 We must stand up to America, and quickly telegraph.co.uk/gift/22e6bb1fc…

@engines_gundogs Mate of mine did jungle training with the Marines. After returning to the UK he went to the doctor with ear ache, had a dead brown recluse in there! Now keeps it in the back his phone case.

And you can fuck the fuck right fucking off too before you get settled old mate. Google gave it an instant death sentence unfortunately for it

Plus the VAT that's only 5p away from nearby forecourt price. @annagelderd @_RobbieMoore this needs looking into urgently, this will reduce cropping/ stocking output and ultimately push up price to the consumer. Everyone loses for the sake of profiteering.

@GOPIsrael That would sound about right. Like Greenland you have no interest in what the settled population desire, just a wish to project power. Power which is being diminished by the day by your isolationist, incompetent President. Wake up US before we damage relationships that matter.

Argentina is sending naval units to assist the U.S. in safeguarding international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The UK has refused. In 1982 President Reagan came to the aid of then PM Margaret Thatcher who was defending the UK colony in the Falkland Islands, claimed by Argentina which refers to them as the Malvinas Islands. In light of the UK’s cowardly refusal to support the US in the Persian Gulf conflict, I think it only appropriate for the Trump Administration to consider reversing US policy on the Falklands and support the Argentinian claim.

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS x.com/i/status/72760…

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

There is a number attached to beef that gets cited at dinner parties. 15,000 litres per kilogram. Almonds: 3,500. Avocados: 2,000. Pistachios: 11,400. Beef, the headline says, uses more than all of them. Here is the thing nobody mentions at the dinner party. Water has categories. Green water: rainfall. Falls on a field, absorbed by vegetation, returned to the atmosphere. Recycled. Continuous. Not extracted from anything. The rain was going to fall on that land whether Gerald was on it or not. Attributing it to the animal standing in it is an accounting choice, not a physical reality. Blue water: groundwater and surface water. Pumped from rivers, drawn from aquifers. The water that, when it's gone, is gone. The water that is sinking the San Joaquin Valley. The number that matters. Gerald's blue water per kilogram of beef: approximately 50 litres. Californian almonds: 3,785 litres. Per kilogram. From an aquifer that took centuries to accumulate. The 15,000 litre figure is almost entirely green water. British rainfall, on British fields, falling regardless of Gerald. The dinner party number is the wrong number. The right number is 50 litres, and the almonds aren't close.

@Farmer_Tom_UK Just the need for a long term plan Tom and investment into it. Not knowing if the management options you are signing up to will still be about and not knowing if it will be properly funded make any form scheme very unappealing, in turn this creates bad value for money.

FARMERS: I’m meeting with the new chief exec of the RPA this morning. What should I be sharing and what should I be asking?

@CommonsEFRA @TonyJuniper @NaturalEngland "Registered at the highest level." Political phrasing straight out of Yes Minister. Ever expanding Greenfield development clearly indicates where the priority lies and it's not environmental protection.

Dr @TonyJuniper, Chair at @NaturalEngland told us that environmental protection has been registered at the highest level across government, and economic growth and nature protection are equal priorities.

@bouta_nt @beges007 I'd struggle to eat whole one.

@beges007 Vegan

Offal

Is this result simply the result of an accounting exercise? Having offshored heavy industry, manufacturing & 40% of the food supply our domestic figures look great. But in so doing we still "produce" the carbon but have managed to loose control of energy & food security.

@Gwyneth69916855 @sue_lees @PeterStefanovi2 Bona vacantia is another issue, having dealt with them they are often a significant cost to administer and deal with. But thats a different matter, they may have even received the land with this liability. The central question has to be why is the victim carrying the cost.

@cvfarming @sue_lees @PeterStefanovi2 In this particular case the Duchy is the beneficiary of estates of people who die intestate and receives huge amounts of money from this source. They are no “ordinary “ landowner and should apply such funds to clearing up this mess, which appears not to have happened overnight!

Andy Burnham says the Duchy of Lancaster is treating people in the north as “second-class citizens” after failing to support the clean-up of a huge illegal waste dump near Wigan. An investigation by Channel 4 News uncovered that the estate of King Charles is connected to the site described as the “UK’s most dangerous illegal dump” – containing more than 25,000 tonnes of waste

@sue_lees @PeterStefanovi2 It's also the law not to fly tip, are you really suggesting that the legal burden falls upon the victim of crime? Clearly the law needs reforming as has been discussed in the HOC this past week.

@cvfarming @PeterStefanovi2 It's the law

🥴Trump said that Putin would be more useful if he put an end to the war in Ukraine US President Donald Trump reported that he had a productive conversation with Putin. “We had a lot of people on the line from our side, from his side. We talked about Ukraine, which is just an endless struggle. Listen, there is tremendous hatred between Presidents Putin and Zelenskyy. They can’t seem to find common ground…” Trump added that they also discussed the Middle East. “And he wants to be helpful. I said: ‘You could be much more helpful if you put an end to the war between Ukraine and Russia. That would be significantly more useful.’ But we had a very good conversation, and he wants to be very constructive.”

I can't keep up with Trump's erratic nature. Set up a board of peace, bomb multiple countries, but don't establish peace in Ukraine. Alienate long standing alliances, threaten your neighbours. It's all transactional to him, peppered with some insider trading? The damage is huge.

@thevalleyfarmer @loosecollie 🤦‍♂️

@cvfarming @loosecollie Well, whoever's been looking at the impact doesn't seem to think so... "This measure is not expected to have a significant impact on prices for individuals, households, and families" #summary-of-impacts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/government/pub…

Is it more profitable to sell your fertiliser than to actually spread it?

Time for government to seriously reconsider the imposition of CBAM fertiliser tax. There is no margin to absorb market shifts let alone additional tax, especially in light of having no domestic fertiliser production. This would put UK Ag at a significant competitive disadvantage.

@loosecollie @thevalleyfarmer Will the government really push CBAM through with this background? It would be domestic food security suicide....

@thevalleyfarmer For Cereals, if now ordering, the cost difference could be £20-£30/ tonne grown. On 3t/ acre as an easy average, £60- £90/ acre deficit. No bps, and it starts to make uncomfortable reading.