Ben Taylor

@FWphilclarke @FarmersWeekly Yes, that was a good project facilitated by the National Park. There’s a string of them all along the South Downs way.

Great bit of PR! ⁦@FarmersWeekly⁩

@DickyWood1 @silveryk We get them pretty regularly at Iford

I'm as big a fan of the app as anyone but it seems unlikely we have an eurasian oystercatcher on the farm @silveryk ?

@CLASouthEast @SteveBarclay @HuwMerriman @SallyAnn1066 @LizzieHacking @Sondesplacefarm @ESConservatives @sdnpa @HighWealdNL @CLAtweets @mikesims88 @Mid_Sussex @Conservatives @BatchellerMonk @FarmersWeekly @FWphilclarke Great meeting, with a wide range of topics covered. Good to see @SteveBarclay in Sussex, and hopefully seeing some of the amazing biodiverse landscapes we have. Pleased to be able to highlight ifordbiodiversityproject.co.uk work with BNG

A useful session with @SteveBarclay in #Sussex last night covering everything from abattoirs to flooding. A good turnout and lots of discussion - more action now needed to support farmers and the rural economy @HuwMerriman @SallyAnn1066 @LizzieHacking @Sondesplacefarm #CLA

@fbuner Here at Iford Biodiversity Project in Lewes we’re using BNG to actively support lapwing populations and increase wet grassland as well as a host of other habitats

How much longer before there are none left? The pattern is clearly that of a species heading towards regional extinction.

@easyJet *poles

@ifordben Hi Ben 👋, I'm sorry to hear that your pole vault poles never arrived. Have you registered a baggage claim already? If no, you can do so here 🌐 spr.ly/6016ue8Oi. (1/2)

@easyJet our pole vault poles never made it to Faro last night. i have 20 young athletes who cant compete until they come. can you help me locate them please?

@easyJet Yes, done that, but no one seems to know when they will be sent from Gatwick! As we were sat on the plane last night we saw them on the tarmac, and flight was delayed because of “special cargo”, but piles never arrived in Faro

@jake_fiennes We’ve got on with delivering it - habitat bank✅ HMMP✅ s106✅ legal agreements✅ sales made✅ innovative agreement with South Downs National Park ✅… we’re ready! ifordbiodiversityproject.co.uk

Waking up in a generic hotel bedroom, day 2 of a conference on biodiversity credits/units/BNG etc.. A lot of talking and just making things too complicated We just need to get on with delivering it!

Off the shelf BNG solution ready in advance of mandatory net gain c-l-m.co.uk/clm-news/susse…

@sim_nature @NESussexandKent @BSBIbotany @Sussex_Botany @btnhovewildlife @SussexWildlife Been carefully managing the grazing on Castle Hill, good to see the effort paying off.

@Appleton_Dairy @thisfarmlife @JustinEllisCYBG Second that!

@thisfarmlife Appreciate we are out of your area but have been with Clydesdale (Virgin money now) for a while. Cannot recommend highly enough, @JustinEllisCYBG is the man to chat to.

How many people still have banks / bank managers worth dealing with? Called recently to discuss a possible and sizeable chunk of land that may come available only to be told that she’s too busy for the next month doing exams and will contact me after. 😡

@DickyWood1 @SeagullTravNews We got back at 11.30

@SeagullTravNews Approximately how long did the trip back from Wembley to Lewes take? Out of interest, for another time. I took the train and it was 4 hours

Reflecting on our #bhafc Wembley travel service Initial feedback would suggest 3,600 passengers had a good trip. 200 passengers not so good, for which we are sorry. We care about what we do & so wanted all 3,800 passengers to have a great experience. We go again Wednesday 🤝

@anthonybecvar I’ve still got some of the herd books from that era. Bulls were going all around the world, and Blackboys!

Looking back through a lot of grandfather’s old paperwork. This was from the local paper in 1951. Best dairy shorthorns in the south! @ifordben a little history between farms!

@SteveGeliot @PAN_UK @SDN_SouthDowns @LivingCoastUK @NFUtweets @SussexWildlife @CarolineLucas Always happy to talk. Drop me an email?

@simoniousclefts @SteveGeliot @SDN_SouthDowns @LivingCoastUK @PAN_UK @NFUtweets @SussexWildlife @CarolineLucas But that doesn’t really kill them, uses heaps of fuel and destroys my soil biology.

@ifordben @SteveGeliot @SDN_SouthDowns @LivingCoastUK @PAN_UK @NFUtweets @SussexWildlife @CarolineLucas Till it in

@PAN_UK @SteveGeliot @SDN_SouthDowns @LivingCoastUK @NFUtweets @SussexWildlife @CarolineLucas It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We monitor the biodiversity and it’s exceptional. You really are targeting the wrong person, and the wrong system

@PAN_UK @SteveGeliot @SDN_SouthDowns @LivingCoastUK @NFUtweets @SussexWildlife @CarolineLucas Ultimately we are trying to produce food for you to eat. There is no way to produce it with *zero* harm to anything. So I spend my career trying to find the balance between the least harm and the economics of actually producing it. This is the best solution.

@PAN_UK @SteveGeliot @SDN_SouthDowns @LivingCoastUK @NFUtweets @SussexWildlife @CarolineLucas Or just accept the massive level of in-crop competition from the weeds and the resulting yield loss - probably 50%+.