Past Chairman of Scottish Tenant Farmers Association still trying to represent and look after interests of tenant farmers in Scotland
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Joined May 2011
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We had massive problems and heavy losses with Salmonella monte video in early 90s following heavy geese grazing in spring. Built a sheep shed in 1994 lambed inside and ended problem
We haven't t had any noticeable/conclusive problems from it, thoughwe dont start lamning/calving til maybe a week or two after most of the geese have left. Depends how much dung there is I guess? More worried about them eating all my grass.
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I feel heart sore for you, Kirsty, I know how much the farm felt for you and your family. We talk about “secure” tenancies but no tenant is secure with a determined landlord and current incontestable notices to quit. Change needed and tenants must receive suitable compensation
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We got handed our Notice to Quit yesterday
While I could rage against the lack of agency, seat at the table & transparency being a secure tenant farmer in land use change faces
For now my heart is just sore - we never owned the land, but it has owned me #Lamberkin
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Should Scotland be an independent country? RT if you intend to #voteYES
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Victoria Derbyshire to replace Fiona Bruce on the Question Time?
RT if you agree.
#BBCqt
Glad to see you are looking into the French SAFER system. I raised it over 10 years ago in the TFF as a model for land market regulation which could be adapted for Scottish conditions. Even more need for it now!
Interesting read on agric land regulation in France & Germany. @ScottishLandCom will soon publish an analysis of the French SAFER system of land market governance which has evolved from the 1960s onwards.
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Just handed over nearly £1k to Highland Council for 2 #STL applications for a business I run from my HOME which PREVENTS rather than contributes to lack of available local housing 🤔😠
Will #Sutherland see any of this money??
Missed opportunity to address empty 2nd homes! 😤
Sounds fascinating, but a bit too far to come. Is it being recorded?
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I believe we should both thank and congratulate @HarrietHarman and her committee for a job very well done. If you agree, PLEASE retweet
Thank you, Harriet, excellent work
Delighted to host aa visit from agricultural students from Texas and introduce them to local history as well as our Luing cattle, NCC and Cheviot Mule flock and highland farming. Thanks to team leader Fiona Sloan
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Good tip!
Big👍 to Murray Parsons @FearnFarm for his #BlueBarrelBodge saves a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from farmer, cow and calf. #Gamechanger
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Guardian article on @ScottishLandCom rural land market study, 'Land ownership in Scotland is at risk of becoming more elitist and unequal because wealthy corporations and forestry companies are dramatically driving up land prices, a new study has warned.' theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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The Prime Minister’s boast at #PMQs having been told of a child eating cereal with water because their parents couldn’t afford milk should send the country into outrage. If you share my anger RT this widely
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Scottish Tory leader MP/ MSP assistant referee Douglas Ross failed to declare his earnings while families used food banks
Please do not RT and remind Dougie of this!
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £136,000,000 she owes give this a RT.
Most country dwellers are feeling neglected and will sympathise with this argument by @FergusEwingSNP Time to form rural group in the SNP?
Agree, how is Rural Affairs Cab Sec @MairiGougeon going to cope with addition of Land Reform and taking 2 major bills through parliament by herself with an understaffed civil service?
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King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £350m a year tax free from the tax payer, and has an estate worth £22bn that is never taxed.
But he still can’t pay for his own damn coronation.
RT if you think the tight, robbing b******* should.
#NotmyKing
Good thread. I couldn’t agree more
After the dust settles on this, it will be worth reflecting (in longer form?) on the courtier class that has developed in Scottish politics. Not brown-envelope corruption, but nepotism, patronage, exposure, promotion, access, relationships, being ITK, being "on the right side"1/3
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