Husband/Father. Farmer & mixed farming advocate. Nature spotter. BASIS. Apocaloptamist
Wiltshire, UK
Joined April 2011
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Michael Gove sold his Brexit agricultural policy as a Green Brexit.
Much of the environmental movement embraced leaving the EUโs Common Agricultural Policy because of the promise of public money for public goods, paying farmers to deliver for nature.
Now environmentalists recognise that those nature schemes are chronically underfunded.
Meanwhile, the replacement for the CAP is failing farmers and weakening the food system on which both humans and wildlife depend.
The entire premise created a false divide. Nature and farming were always synonymous.
Healthy soils. Hedgerows. Pollinators. Grazing livestock. Water. Wildlife. Food.
They arenโt separate systems competing for the same piece of land. They are the same living system.
Destroy the viability of farming and you donโt save nature, you lose the people who manage it.
New work @WildlifeTrusts shows Englandโs nature-friendly farming schemes are chronically underfunded
If doesn't change, food, farm & ecosystem crises accelerate
ยฃ is short but it's vital
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๐จ A Devon sheep farmer says bluetongue has killed around 60 of his animals and cost his business ยฃ20,000, with fears that the damage to his breeding flock could lead to further losses next year
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A message everyone needs to hear.
The other one we visited had โBritish madeโ sofasโฆexcept they were assembled here then shipped right over to Vietnam, and back again, to have the electronic components fitted (incline motors etc).
12 week lead time.
What a mad world we live in!
Went sofa shopping yesterday for the second time in my life!
What surprised me most was the supply chains!
One firm sourced the materials in Australia, sends them to China to be assembled and then ships to the UK. 14 week delivery lead (subject to straight of Hormuz!).
Waded through my email inbox backlog today (rainy day) and noted how many emails there were from ag. firms trying to say we really need to use Autumn cereal insecticides without actually saying it out loud. I call it โGove sprayingโ; he got the deter seed dressing taken away.
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Russia is getting a taste of its own medicine.
St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region came under the largest Ukrainian drone attack, with hundreds of drones targeting critical infrastructure.
According to russian reports the following objects were hit:
The St. Petersburg Oil Terminal.
The VKontakte data center.
The 330 kV Vostochnaya electrical station.
A major cable-stayed bridge in St. Petersburg.
Parts of the region experienced electricity outages and disruptions to water supplies.
For years, russia has systematically attacked Ukraineโs energy infrastructure, oil facilities, and civilian infrastructure, trying to plunge Ukrainian cities into darkness.
Now, the war is increasingly reaching russiaโs own critical infrastructure.
Putin wanted to destroy Ukraineโs economy. Instead, he is destroying russiaโs economy.
Russia can stop this war at any moment by leaving Ukrainian territory.
