Andrew Loftus

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Andrew Loftus

@loftusfarms

North Yorks Beef Farmer/ Hectare Agritech/NFU National Livestock Board/ CoChair CCSC. Farming/ politics/countryside obsessive.

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Andrew Loftus
Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
👍@TheAHDB @AHDB_BeefLamb Great work. Now time to use the same determination and many of same arguments to get the BBC Climate Change Food Calculator taken down. As a reference tool it continues to mislead long after any single programme has been forgotten. @WillJAgri @janelkingy
CLA North@CLANorth

@TheAHDB 👏👏👏👏👏 - Well done @TheAHDB @AHDB_BeefLamb - so important to challenge & debunk the inaccurate information published in cyberspace! @HertsFarmer @MarkBCLA @Minette_Batters @JoeWStanley @JonathanR_CLA @AW_ARobinson @loftusfarms

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Most people who advocate doing something ‘slower’ [restricting immigration] don’t want it doing at all. Turn this ‘thought experiment’ around and you would have open borders. It’s just a question of balance.
Nick von Westenholz@nvonwestenholz

Ever wondered about the UK's immigration policy being based on reserving low-paid jobs for domestic workers? This post sets out really well why the government's immigration/labour policy may be more about levelling-down than levelling-up.

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Andrew Loftus
Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
This is an important & overdue acknowledgement by the IPCC. But will attempts to reach net zero still continue to conflate long and short lived GHGs? Is it time to move to Warming Equivalent Emissions, and ditch CO2e? @DefraGovUK @CFG_Farmers @CLANorth @NFUtweets
ffinlo Costain - 8point9.com & Farm Gate podcast@ffinlocostain

#IPCCAR6 Ch7 pg123 'Expressing methane emissions as CO2 equivalent emissions using GWP-100 OVERSTATES the effect of constant methane emissions on global surface temperature BY A FACTOR OF 3-4 [...] while understating the effect of new methane emission source by a factor of 4-5'.

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Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
Thanks @FarmersWeekly for taking the time to interview me about the work of the @CFG_Farmers on ruminant methane. This is a topic that will have a huge bearing on the future of cattle & sheep farming.
Johann Tasker 🇺🇦@johanntasker

Latest @FarmersWeekly podcast: Big beef: Cattle, methane and climate change Listen from 28 mins 50 secs on: Apple 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… Spotify 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/21JC1e… & FWi 💻 fwi.co.uk/news/farmers-w…

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Andrew Loftus
Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
Achieving climate neutrality [on current metrics] could mean eliminating practices, such as ruminant agriculture, that are not actually causing global warming.”Professor Allen, University of Oxford
Commercial Farmers Group@CFG_Farmers

Urgent adoption of ‘dual’ accounting needed to tackle methane.... Read about our call for UK governments and industry bodies to give our ivestock sectors meaningful climate change metrics to work with commercialfarmers.co.uk/urgent-adoptio…

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Stuart Roberts 🔸
Stuart Roberts 🔸@HertsFarmer·
Good to see Myles Allen and Adrian Macey raising the issue of CO2 equivalence In this weeks @TheEconomist Surely it’s long overdue to have a discussion about duel reporting at the very least to ensure we better account for methane.
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SellMyLivestock@sellmylivestock·
ENTRY CLOSING DATE REMINDER Entries for the upcoming Online Pedigree Bull and Female sale on Tuesday 27th April held in conjunction with the ANM Group close Monday 5th April at 5.00pm. Further details and entry forms here: anmgroup.co.uk/event-details.…
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Andrew Loftus
Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
The @CFG_Farmers have been doing great work raising awareness of new ways of methane accounting. This is vital for the future of UK livestock farming- this article from NZ explains why the UK has got its methane accounting very wrong.
Commercial Farmers Group@CFG_Farmers

Words we would do well to heed. Plain fact is short-lived GHGs must be treated differently or we ransom the future for the sake of short term gains. We urge @lorddeben @beisgovuk @theCCCuk @DefraGovUK to be steered by science & support dual accounting (GWP*+GWP100) as minimum.

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Douglas Ross@Douglas4Moray·
There is no longer any doubt that Nicola Sturgeon lied to the Scottish Parliament and broke the Ministerial Code. She must resign. No evidence she can provide will counter the claims of witnesses or refute that ignoring the legal advice cost £500,000 of taxpayers’ money.
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Mark Jelley
Mark Jelley@PerkinsLodge·
After rapid product development I'm delighted to launch the Cornagate! Designed for the farmer with only 1 set of hooks & no desire to fence a corner properly, it removes the age old problem of a centre post & saves having to decide which fence to put the gate in. DM for prices
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Stuart Roberts 🔸@HertsFarmer·
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@normanbagley1 @HertsFarmer @RobinMa93196033 I agree the best do it as well as they can, but it’s a relatively small % of overall supply, and it could be so much better with new measures that aligned with breeding goals. If you ask those ‘exclusive finishers’ they’ll tell you how much they wish for more consistent stores..
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Norman Bagley
Norman Bagley@normanbagley1·
@loftusfarms @HertsFarmer @RobinMa93196033 Most source from exclusive finishers, some from breeder finishers but less so. On genetics that’s out with my competence. It’s more than a “good story” if underpinned with other benefits like DNA for example which is reason for our work in this area. Genetics benefits then too
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Andrew Loftus
Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
You’re completely right @HertsFarmer but we’ve been saying this for over a decade... and so far, apart from Phil Hadley’s air miles balance ... nothing has changed....
Stuart Roberts 🔸@HertsFarmer

I’ve said it many times before. The beef sector has not been helped by a grading system built to incentivise traits long past their sell by date!! We need to move on & reflect what today’s consumers wants not what an out of date intervention store wants farminguk.com/news/views-sou…

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Andrew Loftus@loftusfarms·
@normanbagley1 @HertsFarmer @RobinMa93196033 Norman..none of your members source exclusively from breeder finishers! They have zero control over the genetics of the beast. Even if they did, there are not adequate measures of MEQ on which to base genetic selection. So you’re right... it’s ‘a good story’... nothing more.
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Norman Bagley
Norman Bagley@normanbagley1·
@loftusfarms @HertsFarmer @RobinMa93196033 Sole purpose of short dedicated supply chains is to avoid exactly that scenario and produce consistent high eating quality thro selection of live animal to suit, feed regime, modern maturation procedures to match or better any imports hence premiums. A good local story helps too
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