@mays_farm Dorset good, Buckinghamshire dry but I have faith (maybe wrongly).
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Steven Lear
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Steven Lear
@farmerbiff
Together with my family we run a mixed farm in rural Buckinghamshire practicing no-till, conservation agriculture and we are also limousin breeders.
buckinghamshire Katılım Kasım 2011
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How’s everyone’s oilseed rape looking this morning?
And before you get too excited with 453 that is Euros
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And we are off. Two combines in two counties bringing the osr harvest in. Dorset crops look a good average yield, bucks crops are a bit of a salvage job after being submerged for so long.
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@ElmTreeBees I think they need a phone in range of them to send a signal. I know farmers that use the apple ones to track equipment.
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This is a steal for £17.50. I wonder if they could be used to track hives as well 🤔
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I spent a good 4 hours searching for my keys the other day & lost the same when my keys fell out of a damaged pocket at an apiary.
Replacement L200 key = £500
Smart tag. See how these go.
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Maybe it will dry up just enough for us to get some nitrogen on the heavy soil this week. Crops look the worst that I can remember. Gaps, yellow, losing tillers.
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@NeddyFlanders11 @JohnDeere Farrols are producing a set of steps that go behind the front wheel. They work well.
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Has anyone ever mentioned to @JohnDeere that falling off the top of a tractor whilst removing a #greenstar dome hurts. They need to share this pain. #farmsafetyweek
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@TWBFarms @Lichfield_DC We all know you don't actually have a plough😂
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so who at @Lichfield_DC do I sent the bill for repairing this mess made by their bin truck this morning ? or shall I just send a tractor to Beacon park and plough that up ?
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@bleating_lamb They all very much appreciated me being there and sharing the experience with them all.
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@farmerbiff I love the sense of togetherness there is with these shared experiences 😂
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Very much enjoyed watching the rugby with my wife's Irish family yesterday. Especially as my brother in-law stood up and announced to the entire pub how they were going to 'destroy us'. Very quiet at the whistle for some reason.🤪 just me in the corner singing swing low.
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@Jonesthejourno A girl I met at university was genuinely shocked that people farmed in the UK. She was from London and had only left London on the train to get to uni in Reading. This blew my mind.
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Plus more ag workers than farm customers according to this poll. How bonkers is that when you think 100% of us are farmers' customers (inc farmers!) 🤯
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I remember chatting to Irish & Kenyan people about the British disconnection from farming during my @NuffieldFarming travels. In both countries it repeatedly came up in conversation how "everyone knows a farmer here". Not so in the UK. It's an Industrial Revolution thing #Divide
Martin Lewis@MartinSLewis
Today's Twitter Poll: Do you know a farmer (or food producer) directly, either as a customer or as a friend? The aim is to testing how personally linked people are to UK agriculture. PS Thanks to Jan_Mccourt for suggesting this poll.
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Today's Twitter Poll: Do you know a farmer (or food producer) directly, either as a customer or as a friend?
The aim is to testing how personally linked people are to UK agriculture.
PS Thanks to Jan_Mccourt for suggesting this poll.
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The more we rely on natural systems in farming, the more likely you are to end up with a natural yield.
Andrew McGuire@agronomistag
Why do so many people think we must learn from nature, mimic nature, or use nature as a standard for agriculture, when there is little evidence of any mechanism that would optimize natural ecosystems for producing food?
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@EdinvaleFarm If I was their marketing person I'd of made the label a little larger to hide the state of that from the customer.
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Shit folks! Lookout 👀 - Beyond Food have raised that famously high bar as to what they will class as food by reformulating their highly processed gloup to include that wonderfully sustainable ingredient avocado oil! SELL THE COWS! SELL THE FARM! BUY SHARES in BEYOND FOOD! 🏆
Beyond Meat@BeyondMeat
Gold looks good on us. Say hello to Beyond Burger and Beyond Beef IV, now made with avocado oil. We're raising the bar for plant-based meat while delivering our meatiest, juiciest and most nutritious burger ever. This latest recipe offers: 💪 21g of protein per serving 📋 A simplified ingredient list 🥑 60% less sat fat than the previous version (thanks to avocado oil) 🧂20% less sodium than the previous version 💚 No cholesterol 💉No added antibiotics or hormones 🧬 No GMOs
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@ElmTreeBees Like it needed to stop raining 3 months ago. Alot has now drowned.
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Patchy wheat this year. The bottom has been flooded non stop and the banks have significant plant loses due to springs running more than I've ever seen. Not as bad as some though. Staying positive.
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@cvfarming @ProagriLtd Rip it up and make them buy them in the open market. They are desperate for cattle.
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Our cattle contract has landed, offering 30p above base. But that's the same 30p we were offered in 2018 (should now be 37p RPI), we must now finish stock 2 months sooner & offer environmental information. More for the supermarket for less money 1/3
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@ElmTreeBees Reduce supply lines. Sell products rather than commodities and remember the vast majority of consumers buy on price... they are not your people. Market produce at the ones that want provenance and have deeper pockets.
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By attacking imported supermarket honey are we damaging the public trust in ALL honey?
It's a fair question. Maybe the public are sick of it and are moving on. Sales in the supermarkets are not good. The growth supermarkets won't even look at 🇬🇧 honey unless it's around £4 a jar.
In the UK, it's not a good place for honey production. We don't have the wacking great fields of Sunflowers like the Canadians, or the cheap labour of Eastern Europe. & the weather sucks. So I can see why we do it, to protect ourselves from being thrashed on the world market.
What's everyones thoughts? How do we dig ourselves out of this rut?
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