Joe Bramall 🐄

Your reminder, should it be needed, that the populist right does not care about farmers or our concerns. We’re just a vehicle for their wider aims, for as long as we’re useful. Do not be taken in.

@lelyrobotman @LelyHolding @EFSireland @LelyEglish Brilliant stuff 👌🏼

Thomas Nugent from County Meath began working with @LelyHolding 25 years ago !! Started out as a service engineer working on Astronaut A2’s! Great to have so much experience available locally to support our service team ! #LelyMullingar #RoboticMilkingSpecialists

A brilliant piece highlighting issues facing 🇬🇧 Agriculture. So important to share the these issues with a wider audience. Kudos to @EdConwaySky & the Bower family 👏🏼

@LakesWeather @MetMattTaylor @Hoofcount1 It was a brilliant & challenging walk - I look forward to following your progress this winter! The change from the normal suit and tie threw me at first 🤣

@JoeBramall @MetMattTaylor @Hoofcount1 Great to see you and your mates enjoying (?) Swirrel Edge. Your expression when you saw @MetMattTaylor !

What a surprise to meet @MetMattTaylor 🌦️ today up Helvellyn ❄️ who was with the Lake District National Park team🏔️. These guys will be climbing up Helvellyn every day over winter to measure the weather #Legends 😎

Great to meet you, good luck this winter @LakesWeather 🤩

BOVAER. Should you be worried? In short: no. Let me explain... Firstly, wtf is it? It's classified as a "feed additive". The active ingredient is something called 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP). Chemically, this is a primary alcohol (similar to ethanol) and a molecule of organic nitrate stuck together. Stick with me because it gets interesting... So this 3-NOP stuff stops a very specific enzymatic reaction in the cows rumen (the largest part of it's stomach). See the image. Everything you see in the image is what normally happens. 3-NOP enzymatically blocks ONLY the last step to prevent methane forming. What happens instead is the cow produces something called NOPA -> then HPA -> then eventually lactose and carbon dioxide. We know this because some (thankfully) paranoid scientists radioactively labelled some 3-NOP, fed it to cows, goats and rats and followed what happens all the way to the end. From this experiment they also figured out that zero detectable 3-NOP ends up in the milk or meat. Link to that study: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A separate study also did NOT find any 3-NOP ended up in the milk but the milk did have 21% more vitamin B12. This is probably because the cows stomach produced more microbobes that make B12. Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… So back to the question, should you be worried? Personally I don't see anything to be worried about here. None at all. That doesn't mean I think cows are burning the planet nor do I like the idea of the food supply being tampered with. That said I am happy this isn't gene editing and this isn't pumping cows with pharmaceutical drugs. I'm also happy I can continue enjoying my steak and butter. P.S. all the health warnings you're seeing about 3-NOP irritating the skin etc is because it's made with a primary alcohol. Pure ethanol does all the same stuff if you handle it directly.

@JoeWStanley @MetMattTaylor @Hoofcount1 This one was a complete coincidence & very cool 🤣🤩

@JoeBramall @MetMattTaylor @Hoofcount1 It never surprises me who you have selfies with.

“I don’t think this stops until the government realise the human impact of this policy” Well put by @ProagriLtd on @BBCNewsnight 👌🏼

IN PARLIAMENT TODAY: There is a debate on farming and food security. It has been reassuring to hear the new government repeatedly recognise that food security is national security, but now we must see an increased multi-year agriculture budget to match words with action🧵👇

For a fraction of the £ farmers could deliver carbon capture tomorrow in biomass & soils - but the sustainable farming budget is set to be cut.

@DavidatWestons @NFUPolitical @UKLabour The A team!

Great to be with the @NFUPolitical team @UKLabour Conference in Liverpool. The stand is brilliant as ever and in prime position for 4 days of bringing farming to the new government.

Time really does fly, 1 year working with Lely already 🐄🎓🔴 Good to reflect on what was such a great day last year @HarperAdamsUni 😃🤩

@Minette_Batters @Countrylifemag Love the term cakeism- will be using that one 😂🍰

My July piece for @Countrylifemag some thoughts on #manifesto commitments by #Reform and why Labour must deliver on their commitment to #FoodSecurity being #NationalSecurity 👇

Interesting from new @DefraGovUK SoS @SteveReedMP this morning - @UKLabour’s manifesto mention of ‘food security as national security’ formalised as a ‘core priority’ of his department. Many cross-departmental discussions to make that a reality. But a positive start.

I had a brilliant morning at Grosvenor Farms 🐄 @downtoearthuk_ with a great speaker line up 🎤. Key takeaways for me - 1. Reaffirming the importance of measuring carbon📐 2. Exciting possibilities for the future🚜 2. Sharing dairy’s great story together outside the industry🗣️

@hrcdavies It’s growing! 🤩😎

Direct drilled maize enjoying some long awaited sunshine☀️

@JoeWStanley Is that an Aldi logo in the middle?

Worth considering.

@mikeacthomas Brilliant, Mike!! 🤩👌🏼

Great to be back on the radio this morning !!

Great to have the opportunity to ask🗣️ a question at #NFU24 last week about communicating the positive message farming 👨🏼‍🌾 has to a wider audience 🌍 Really positive talk from @Jack_A_Bobo before highlighting the impact of polarised debate to the farming message 🚜