Ben Taylor-Davies

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Ben Taylor-Davies

Ben Taylor-Davies

@bentd76

Farmer protecting the #riverWye #phosphates and farm advisor covering UK and Europe. Advisor #Regenben. #regenerativeagriculture #Neurodiversity

Ross-on-Wye, England เข้าร่วม Kasım 2015
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@robboroberts @EllieChowns We could as farmers store more water and reduce P applications by unlocking the biological component of soils. Providing the ‘public’ with benefits which should be ultimately be rewarded on a farm scale, that’s my hope/wish!
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Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts@robboroberts·
It’s the % figures that get me Ben. 40% pollution is agriculture according to this, Leigh Day claim 70%. Seems like % figures are just a sound bite. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Let’s hope some better natural resource management can run alongside the farming practices. Dam water being released every day this week but we’ll be dry come August.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP
Dr Ellie Chowns MP@EllieChowns·
There is huge local effort in North Herefordshire to tackle agricultural pollution in the Wye & Lugg - but we need proper government support for the solutions local people want: farmer-led landscape recovery projects; more funding and teeth for the EA, and a WPZ for the Wye.
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@robboroberts @EllieChowns Perhaps it’s always been pretty bad? My father lost inches and in places feet of soil to the river. If nothing else this could drive better farming practices in the Wye valley?
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Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts@robboroberts·
@EllieChowns Has pollution in these rivers got worse over the years? If so where can I see these results?
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@photod70 @GBNEWS Because sadly, processing, the bottle, packaging, haulage, storage and labour to do all this have all inflated hugely, meanwhile the actual milk.....
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Alan Kay
Alan Kay@photod70·
@GBNEWS I don't notice a reduction in selling price at my supermarket, in fact a couple of weeks ago the price increased!
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GB News
GB News@GBNEWS·
'An average-sized herd could be losing around £20,000 a month now!' Farmer Clive Bailye outlines the shocking impact the recent supermarket milk price cut is having on dairy farmers. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604 Become a Friend of GB News: gbnews.com/friend
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@JamesMelville Royalties are payable for 25 years, considering the lack of development over those 25 years in terms of the yield plateaux, you can use those seeds and see no detrimental effect on yield.
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
He’s right. The monopolistic corporatisation of food has massively diminished family farms and also led to an ultra processed foods culture in society. The UK has the highest level of ultra processed food consumption in Europe, Listen to this…
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Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@elonmusk Imagine a world where most were ‘middle ground’ but had an opinion?!
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@hanslope Average year for us, tells nothing of the story though, 9 record breaking months in 95 years of weather recording
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John Pawsey 🌞
John Pawsey 🌞@hanslope·
I give you the weather we had in 2025 in IP29. HNY all ❤️
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John@KingdomOfElmet·
@BGatesIsaPyscho How can they support a dictator who keeps his own people short of food and medicines, while he and his favourites live lives of luxury?
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Concerned Citizen
Concerned Citizen@BGatesIsaPyscho·
🇬🇧 Meanwhile in London outside the US Embassy earlier today Liberals protesting US Capture of Maduro Trump could arrest, incarcerate and liberate the World from Satan himself & these people would still be mad about it ‼️
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Ben Adams 🌾
Ben Adams 🌾@BenAdamsAgri·
2025 ends with great news 😃 First person in the UK to trial relay cropping in 1m strips over the next two years! Grant is part of the adopt fund with help from facilitators @bofinfarmers Two harvests, one cover crop and grazing all in one year? Inspired by @jasonmauck1
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Phil Hunt
Phil Hunt@Wrexit·
@_RobbieMoore @VictoriaAtkins Most urgent: SFI relaunch to throw a lifeline to the thousands of small family farms that missed out due to the sudden closure. (you won’t have heard this from all the affluent, well connected larger farmer lobbyists, who’s agents secured their SFI agreements in time)
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Robbie Moore MP
Robbie Moore MP@_RobbieMoore·
With immediate cashflow pressures, farm business confidence at a record low and crucial investment being pulled - our country is facing a food and farming emergency as a result of Labour’s choices. Today, we held an Emergency Summit bringing together farmers and growers to discuss a way forward to urge this Labour government to urgently change course, provide clarity and ensure food security is at the heart of government delivery.
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@JamesMelville No farmers no food? Get the water quicker to the rivers, greater flooding and more farmland underwater! Thanks!
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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
Road flooding: Blame the local councils for not unblocking the road drains rather than on cow farts destroying the climate.
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GB News
GB News@GBNEWS·
‘You talk about the UK, it’s one of the worst in the world. They believe, this nonsense, this fiction.’ President Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. #GBNewsTrump
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mrchrisjohn
mrchrisjohn@mrchrisjohn·
@DaveThroup Try draining a bath with a pin prick hole in the plug
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Dave Throup
Dave Throup@DaveThroup·
My position, to be clear: Drain maintenance is a good thing and can reduce flood risk. Drain maintenance would not have prevented Monmouth flooding last night.
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru@cymru_inquiry·
So much for @Eluned_Morgan @WelshGovernment resilience planning for severe weather (7 Oct 2025) Every single drain was blocked & overgrown all the way up the Old Monmouth Road, Abergavenny, near my mums, a few weeks ago. Earlier yesterday the council attempted to unblock one but left all the debris behind so it got swept into the drain and blocked it again! They simply cannot be surprised by the severe flooding in Abergavenny yesterday (worst for 40 years) when they failed to undertake even the most basic mitigations. Expect the same ineptitude in health & social care winter planning in Wales too.
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Welsh Parliament@SeneddWales

MSs put questions to the First Minister in today’s FMQs. Later, they’ll hear Welsh Government statements on winter pressures in health and social care—and on resilience planning for severe weather. business.senedd.wales/ieListDocument…

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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@TWBFarms @RoberttheLogman Grain trader = profit Haulier = profit Miller = profit Baker = profit Distribution = profit Retailer = profit This is not just supermarkets ripping off farmers! A strong pound and plentiful world supply of wheat isn’t helping either. Beef boys aren’t complaining!
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Clive Bailye
Clive Bailye@TWBFarms·
@RoberttheLogman they sell bread for circa £1.40 in average made mostly from wheat ……… they paid ( stole ! ) circa 10 pence for !
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@agronomistag The clear message from the UK would be, how much are you spending per Ha!?!? The lowest cost here is more expensive than a multi species one I’m growing here. #farmersbeingfarmed
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Andrew McGuire
Andrew McGuire@agronomistag·
Cover crop mixture research, 5 states, 17 site-years, concludes that CC mixture diversity and seeding rate did not consistently improve CC performance, measured soil parameters, or cash crop yields. But they cost more. Open access. #d1e1137" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@bleating_lamb Certainly useful on irrigated crops with the ability to apply fertigation etc. Law of diminishing returns as the ability to respond to the data is reduced.
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Paul Davey 🚜🌾🐑🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏉
Paul Davey 🚜🌾🐑🚛🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏉@bleating_lamb·
It’s been a difficult season to determine whether I really got the best out of the Paul-Tech soil sensor as it’s mostly been reading “Dry Stress” but there’s snippets of valuable info from temperature, fertility & moisture updates that just help to give you a steer with things.
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Ben Taylor-Davies
Ben Taylor-Davies@bentd76·
@agronomistag @Jes_Squirrell I'm fortunate to visit Broadbalk often, incredible longterm experiment, with the almost infinite amount of requests to add yet another layer of trial information, it's remarkable they have been able to keep the original trial running!
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Andrew McGuire
Andrew McGuire@agronomistag·
@bentd76 @Jes_Squirrell There are definitely limitations to the Rothamsted plots due to when they were started and trying to maintain their research value today. This might be one of them.
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Andrew McGuire
Andrew McGuire@agronomistag·
Fertilizer DOES NOT burn up soil organic matter. Long-term study finds "NP fertilization substantially augments both the quantity and stability of soil organic carbon stocks." scienmag.com/long-term-n-an…
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