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William Blackburn
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William Blackburn
@notillwill
Pasture based dairy farming with 250 Procross and 100 Danish Red cows, utilising no-till, lucerne, clover rich grass leys, cover crops, beans and wheat.
Lymm, Cheshire, UK. Katılım Ocak 2014
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NEW: Tory candidate Craig Williams, Rishi Sunak's closest parliamentary aide, has apologised and tells @BBCNews he made a "huge error of judgement" over betting on the date of the next general election.
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@AnnaLongthorp @kenyanpigfarmer @FarmersWeekly Anna - there has been no personal gain for me. And FW doesn’t make money from clicks and likes on FB, X or Instagram.
People have called me names (like fat dyke or prick) questioned my motives, called for me to be sacked.
I wrote the piece because it was the right thing to do.
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@FarmersWeekly But you must acknowledge the damage you’ve done in defaming innocent young farmers surely? In your hunt for clicks
Tarnished all with the same brush.
Don’t get me wrong, the read was hard,abhorrent,disgusting acts should be punished but you’ve now tarnished all young farmers
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@TWBFarms @Farmer_Tom_UK @UKLabour If you’re a member of the Labour Party you make use of private tuition, they aren’t going to put VAT on that.
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simply politics of envy this shows @UKLabour up for what they truly are
600k independent school children, most NOT with millionaire parents at Eaton ! if just 10% can no longer afford to offer their children the best pos eduction that’s at least 60 new schools to build and pay to run. ……….. idiotic politics that make no sense
Taxing children / education is utterly disgusting politics
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Good Lord. Simple question: if a minimum of 40K kids arrive in the state sector this September, where will they be schooled? The extra burden on the taxpayer will be greater than any VAT payment to govt for those that remain in the private sector.
Chris Rose@ArchRose90
“When there's a forecast that between 40k & 224k private students may have to leave their schools. What will Lab do to accomodate them in the state sector? Lab have campaigned saying schools are overcrowded and oversubscribed.” Yvette Cooper fails FOUR times to explain this.
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@leemsutton @RedTractorFood Just keeping the seat warm for a certain wedding venue proprietor.
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@RedTractorFood Strange …….. never saw the job adverts for this position?
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Statement from the Red Tractor Ownership Body: 🔊Cumbrian Farmer, Alistair Mackintosh, has been appointed Interim Chair of Red Tractor, when Christine Tacon steps down: redtractorassurance.org.uk/news/new-red-t…
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@woodboroughpark Our Kress does 40% of its claimed capacity easily in 2 days. Contrary to other replies we keep it going 12 months of the year, grass keeps growing we keep mowing.
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We have been trialling a Husqvarna robotic mower (GPS). I would be interested to know of others’ experiences? (I don’t think it cuts anywhere near the claimed area in a day - as in possibly no more than 60%)?
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@PaulBGip @hertsfarming @TWBFarms @NFUtweets Looks like a land fill site to me, always going to be unstable. I notill and perennial crop where there has been landfill.
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@hertsfarming @TWBFarms @NFUtweets Wouldn’t be Clive otherwise…this was direct drilled… no rills and no hills rather than cultivation method
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Wheat should be growing in John Charles-Jones' field, instead he's left with unimaginable damage caused by storms.
Ahead of the next general election, we are asking the government to support farmers with flood management & compensate them fairly👉ow.ly/yv2650RiN53
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@WarrenAllison18 @DaveThroup They forecast a forecast? Nothing has happened they just made another forecast.
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@DaveThroup I work in food manufacturing and have responded on behalf of our parent company to Borehole abstraction consultation proposals, one about 8 years ago and forecast this would happen.
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Agriculture and businesses that have existing licences to abstract water can expect to see them reduced or revoked in future due to water shortages.
Yellow and red areas need to find big reductions.
While Summers get hotter and drier. Good luck!
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BREAKING: Barack Obama arrives at Number 10 in UK for an undisclosed private meeting
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@kiteconsulting @NFUtweets @chriswalkland Paul Tompkins, I don’t see how he has the faculties to represent dairy farmers in either role, tragic.
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This week on the #KitePodcast we discuss what the future of Red Tractor could look like with Paul Tompkins @NFUtweets & @chriswalkland
Usual report from Chris too
kiteconsulting.com/podcasts
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@FWAbiKay @tenantfarmers They are invoking break clauses from personal experience.
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Worrying reports that tenants are being 'cajoled' & even 'duped' into joining Landscape Recovery.
"If you were a farmer represented in a bid that had been put in by your landlord, would you feel able to talk?
They wouldn’t. It stinks."
@tenantfarmers
fwi.co.uk/news/tenants-b…
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@PenumbraeLeo @thecoastguy We are not allowed GM crops in Europe, 👌
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For decades these farmers, by choosing Monsanto, GM crops, Industrial Ag, and Factory farming, have sided with the same Agenda as is behind the Reset.
If they want my support, they have to return to the organic and freerange farming of our recent ancestors, instead of being stooges for the Agenda.
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Christine Anderson MEP and the stand we must make in support of farmers. youtu.be/v-2V8z8_S8E?fe…
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If your landlord was evicting you because he wants to offset the houses he’s building in the next parish you may have a different view?
Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber@agricontract
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@gaurav_kochar @247dotAg Farmers around the globe must be praised for keeping food supplied amidst these terrible conditions.
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You thought 2023 was hot? 2024 looks BROILING hot. The forecast for the next 3 months looks like it'll be the hottest spring ever recorded. The limits of human survivability will once again be pushed in many regions around the globe.
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@agricontract did the Xerion buyer also buy a deep ripper?
Concerned Citizen@BGatesIsaPyscho
🚨🇫🇷 HOLY SHIT - FRANCE PROTESTS The protests are escalating as Farmers take to digging up Highways that lead into Paris They are suffocating the French Capital & restricting supply chains - this is now MUCH more than just protesting ludicrous taxes - this is about all the Tyrannical measures & decisions since the Covid Tyranny. THIS IS A FULL BLOWN REVOLUTION VIVA LA FRANCE 🇫🇷
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@Minette_Batters @DefraGovUK Look, @Minette_Batters , I don’t believe @RedTractorFood not a factor ranking higher than BCMS?
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This is precisely why we have continually asked @DefraGovUK to do a food production impact assessment as farm businesses transition to stewardship schemes. It absolutely must happen this year. Real life consequences at stake #MentalHeathMatters
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Geoff Sansome@HawfordFarm
Calls to @FCNcharity helpline for December. Really not good. Looking at the graph you could conclude that withdrawal of BPS, transitioning to Stewardship, is causing financial difficulties for many, leading to mental wellbeing issues. #Farming #mentalhealthmatters
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@JoeWStanley @Andrews80820780 Best thing is to mute or stop following serial retweeters, cleans up your feed.👍
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@Andrews80820780 Yes, I believe in the scientific consensus and my own experience as a farmer (and human being with eyes) that the climate is undergoing rapid and extreme change, for the worse.
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So many populist far-right demagogues in my feed being RT’d by UK farmers.
Please, do a cursory check of their output before you RT.
We can’t be so desperate for affirmation that we would intentionally get into bed with ethno-nationalist climate change deniers & conspiracists?
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Help needed please report this account pretending to be me
If you look they have added a extra C to the name
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@FarmersWeekly @JoeWStanley @FWAbiKay @AbiReader @redshepherdess @laithafarm @ZwartblesIE @Minette_Batters @LizWebsterSBF @Lizhaines6 What was the figure for men? Could be a bigger issue or not?
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📉 This figure is down from as high as 69% in 2014, highlighting a big issue.
READ MORE: fwi.co.uk/news/has-worki…
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When you promise carbon neutral 10 years before any other industry based on flawed calculations that decimates ruminant agriculture. No wonder members are like meerkats, wondering what will be decided in their name. BTW “large organisation” 🤨🤣🤣🤣
Joe Stanley@JoeWStanley
@geo9cwb Because you can’t run a large organisation with a remit to cover many sensitive issues as an open book. Members are perfectly entitled to know what the NFU is doing on their behalf. The rest of the world isn’t. It’s detrimental to the effective operation of the organisation.
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