adam lewis

Arable farming and regen ag.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ukraine sits on some of the most fertile soil on earth, the deep black earth that made it the breadbasket of Europe. In 1932 and 1933, on that very soil, close to four million of its people were starved to death. The soil was as rich as ever. The famine was a decision.

The decision was collectivisation. Stalin set out to abolish the independent farmer altogether, to end private land and private animals and drive every peasant onto a state-run collective farm. The man who owned a little, a few cattle, a horse, a plot worked by his own family, was branded a kulak, an enemy of the people, and marked for destruction. Stalin's instruction was to liquidate them as a class.

The peasants saw what was coming, and many made a terrible choice. Rather than surrender their animals to the state, they killed them. Across the Soviet Union the herds simply collapsed. Around half the cattle, gone. Nearly half the horses that pulled the ploughs. Two-thirds of the sheep and goats. Tens of millions of animals slaughtered in a few seasons, a loss so total that the country did not rebuild its livestock to the old levels until the 1980s. A people who had fed themselves for a thousand years destroyed their own herds rather than hand them over, and the state called it sabotage.

Then came the grain. The quotas were set impossibly high, and when the villages could not meet them, brigades went from house to house and took everything. The harvest. The seed saved for next spring. The last food in the pantry. And when the countryside had been stripped bare, the people were forbidden to leave in search of bread, sealed inside their own dying villages.

So it was that in one of the richest farming regions on the planet, the men and women who actually grew the food lay down in the lanes and died of hunger, in their millions. Some, at the very end, ate things no human being should ever have to eat.

Here is the lesson, and it is worth carving somewhere it cannot be forgotten. A man who owns his land and his animals can feed his family whoever sits in the palace. A man who depends on the state for his bread can be starved the day he steps out of line. That is why the independent farmer is always the first enemy of absolute power. Take his herds, take his fields, and you have taken the one thing that let him stand on his own.

A population that cannot feed itself will, in the end, do as it is told.

Destroy the farmer, and you hold the whole nation by the throat.

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@TWBFarms @Keir_Starmer @agricontract @wheat_daddy @loosecollie We’re doomed…. But it’s not to late..🙏

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@Pxfarms It’s been a struggle to get drilling across the line again this year… time for you to have a beer with the team…🍻

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@Wyefarm @edfenergy @ofgem Share your pain on that one Ally….we’re in exactly same position.. it’s ridiculous..!!

[Razorback @razorbackmowers]

On the 6th of January 2024 Mzuri Ambassador @AdamMLewis1 will be running the Battersea Half Marathon along with his two daughters, in aid of We Are Farming Minds.
Good luck to Adam, Emily and Caroline. 🍀
To donate, please click on the link below ⬇️
https://t.co/B7nyicqpuf

[Robert Beaumont 🇬🇧 @BeaumontRobert]

Tomorrow’s @AHDB_Cereals Monitor Farm meeting at Adam Lewis’ looking at drills and cultivation strategies should be a good one. Plenty of tyres to kick. 9am kick off, bacon butties and hot drinks to keep you going. Make sure you register 👇

https://t.co/7ofRWqvk8U

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@BeaumontRobert Morning sample Rob..? Looks a little crusty. Maybe you’re dehydrated..🤷‍♂️

[Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber @agricontract]

I wanna say we sleepwalked into a monopoly but @NFUtweets actually did warn @DefraGovUK

[Hannah Bowden @Hannah__Bowden]

🌱HEREFORDSHIRE🌱 On Monday @3pm we join the Hereford monitor Farmers at Lower Hope Farm. We will have…
☘️@BoycefieldFarm - Composting
🧬@Rothamsted - Phosphate testing
🚜@jacklowerhope - Farm Walk
🍔Food provided!

Book on now @ https://t.co/RG8SXgp554

[Dr Nick Wilson @Nick_Wilson3]

If you wondered about why we can't compete...where are the trees, the hedges, the wildlife? And yet we have the third cheapest food in the world...go figure

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@BeaumontRobert FFS…!!

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@DaveThroup Thanks Dave… let’s hope the weather Gods prove you right once this week is done..🤞

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

“It was commonplace to wash visibly gone off ham, or mix rotting pork with the fresh.”

Abi Kay says multiple UK businesses are carrying out the same dangerous food practices and fraud as the one in her investigation.

@FWAbiKay | @maitlis | @jonsopel

Coming to @GlobalPlayer

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@BeaumontRobert Very well put Rob.

[Hannah Bowden @Hannah__Bowden]

With prices looking as cloudy as the British weather, grain marketing could mean the difference between hit and miss! Come along to Ledbury tomorrow to get ahead of the curve!!📈 #herefordmonitorfarm

[Hannah Bowden @Hannah__Bowden]

Financial and mental resilience go hand in hand 🤯🤝🏻 which is why we will be delving into both aspects from a grain marketing angle this Thursday! Want learn how to make the best marketing decisions? Click the link ➡️👀 https://t.co/mh97ZfXAg0

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@mikeonthehills **Food

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@mikeonthehills Join the club Mike… no different over here in UK. Good security of no importance..

[adam lewis @AdamMLewis1]

@farmerbiff @OOOfarmer Agree with all the above… Poly for me