Rosey Dunn

You want to know the most efficient land use in Britain? Not almonds. (You can't grow almonds here. The climate would make them feel personally attacked.) Not avocados. (Laughable.) Not quinoa. (We tried. It's fine. It's not fine.) Grass. Which grows on the 65% of British agricultural land that cannot support arable crops. Which feeds ruminants. Which converts that grass into complete protein, saturated fat, and fat-soluble vitamins through a digestive system that has been running without modification for forty million years. The cow is not a problem to be solved. The cow is the solution that was already here.

@wheat_daddy @wass74 @LincolnCity_FC @RhondaT40 Get well soon, Andrew x

@wass74 @LincolnCity_FC Morning Nigel. Afraid I won’t be going, but @RhondaT40 will! 5/6 weeks on crutches so that’s my season over. 😢

Cheers and good morning Championship Bound #Imps to a home @LincolnCity_FC match day 👊🔴⚪️ #UTI

This ⬇️ It's not as though farmers don't work long hours...

Labour Loves the Countryside. It Just Hates the People Who Run It. A woman walks into a tailor's shop in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. She loves the heather hills, she says. The wooded dales. The purple moorland stretching to the horizon. What she cannot stand is the shooting that takes place on the Glorious Twelfth. Jeremy Shaw, the tailor, has heard this before. He considers whether to explain that the heather she travelled three hours to admire exists because of the grouse moor she despises. The gamekeepers who manage the land, suppress the bracken, and keep the moorland in the condition that makes it worth visiting. The cake, in other words, was baked by the baker she came to castigate. What is worrying is that the government shares her confusion. On March 18, Labour published its Land Use Framework. Half a million acres earmarked for solar panels. Nine percent of farmland committed to rewilding. And buried on page 45, a proposal to license game bird shooting, potentially restricting pheasant and partridge releases onto estates. The trail hunting ban came first. Licensing comes next. Each measure arrives with its own rationale. Together they form a programme. Licensing does not prohibit. Bureaucracy does not ban. Smaller shoots simply cannot absorb compliance costs, fold quietly, and nobody in Whitehall answers for the consequence. A Natural England case near Helmsley shows the method. A longstanding partridge shoot was barred from releasing birds until after the season had already started. Shoot days cancelled. Revenue gone. Natural England's hands formally clean. Helmsley bucks every trend in British retail. Four pubs in the town square. A Michelin-starred inn nearby. A tailor forty years in business in what a mentor once called a dying trade. Seventy-five percent of Shaw's revenue is shooting-related. The Pheasant hotel runs at sixty percent shooting occupancy through winter. The deli sells local cheese to Norwegian and German sportsmen. Shooting contributes £3.3 billion annually to the UK economy and supports nearly 147,000 jobs. Pull the shooting thread and the weave comes apart. One Helmsley pub changed hands a few years ago. The new owners decided they wanted nothing to do with shoot trade. They lost heavily, then went back to the estates cap in hand. The market delivered the verdict that policy is not yet ready to impose openly. Licensing achieves the same result without anyone having to take responsibility. The conservation argument collapses under scrutiny. Grouse moor owners have restored 217,000 acres of upland heath in the past 25 years. The almost-extinct curlew is four times more likely to fledge on a managed grouse moor than on unmanaged moorland. The landscape that Whitehall has identified as the problem is the reason the landscape exists in the form they claim to value. When asked what economic trade-offs it had actually modelled, the government was vague. Officials said they recognised shooting's cultural importance and would work with industry toward a sustainable relationship. Starmer has been invited to visit Helmsley and see how the economy functions. He has not replied. He should go. He should meet the gamekeeper loading double guns through winter to keep the household solvent. The beaters earning seventy pounds a day. The tailor measuring 24 keepers for tweed suits stitched with Essex lining and Yorkshire zips. What rural Britain is being offered instead is a licensing regime that will first eliminate smaller shoots, then larger ones, then the hotels and tailors and pubs, until the moorland reverts to bracken and the towns that shooting sustained join the dying high streets that apparently only the countryside had managed to avoid. The heather on the North York Moors, Jeremy Shaw at Carters Country Wear, and the market town of Helmsley. All three exist because of shooting. Labour's Land Use Framework puts all three at risk.

Urban fantasies of wolves will not save the environment says @RoryStewartUK Listen to The Exchange: linktr.ee/exchange.ns

I’ve watched this sooo many times today And EVERY TIME I had goosebumps Ant and Dec say “come on farmers”💪 The audience are clearly behind farmers as is the wonderful @AmandaHolden Music, choirs are so powerful, it reaches the depths of your soul Thank you @JeremyClarkson 🙏

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If we rely on imports, remember, when others are short, they won’t export. Farmers warned, this crisis in the Strait of Hormuz won’t empty shelves tomorrow, but in 6 months, we will feel it. Past governments built policy assuming imports were enough and shut down domestic fertilizer. Now that lag comes home to roost. @UKLabour @Conservatives @reformparty_uk @GBNEWS @TheFarmingForum #FoodSecurity #FertilizerCrisis #StraitOfHormuz #SupportFarmers #Act

@rashidsuffolk @SpudSlingsby Bless you 😉 and some made its way to Wissington, again Indeed, and of interest to a wide audience too

@farmerDunn @SpudSlingsby Most farming in a Countryfile for years, I know you grow beet Rosie, isn’t that enough?😀

No mention for Yorkshire Sugar beet growers BBC Countryfile @SpudSlingsby

@SpudSlingsby Good report as ever, by Charlotte Smith, just no mention of all growers other than Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincs

@farmerDunn They don't come far north of Oxfordshire never mind the Humber

UPDATE - PARKING AT YAMS Following the recent heavy rainfall, a number of car parks on site have been impacted requiring some changes to the normal parking arrangements. yams.uk.com/news/important…

Thanks for putting your rubbish tidy back in the bag.... Shame you had to throw it into a field

This is how to save British farming. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/1…

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This week I sat down with the Emmerson family on their farm. What Labour’s Family Farm Tax would do to them - and thousands like them - is heartbreaking. Generations of work, broken up to pay a tax bill. There's still time to axe this cruel tax in the Budget. Our North Yorkshire farming families deserve better. Listen to their story. 👇 #FarmingActionDay

@lukejcr please read this🧵 And support those who are going to be hugely impacted by the proposed #FamilyFarmTax

Baroness Arlene Foster tells Barry Gardiner MP on @BBCNewsnight how Labour has alienated the whole of the rural vote!

Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, study claims mol.im/a/15220049 I will never stop burning kiln dried logs while Drax power station is importing and burning millions of tons of Canadian wood to fiddle #Netzero targets & the nation stuggles with a grid that can't cope and power cuts

Enormous turnips and forage rape done well this year