Alice

Agricultural journalist by day🌾 , farmer by night. @RoyalAgUni grad. New entrant & council farm tenant

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

❗ A course that’s shaped generations of British farmers is under threat. The University of Nottingham plans to suspend its Agriculture BSc — and the farming community isn’t staying quiet

READ MORE: https://t.co/nd9ldtIwov

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

Analysis by Land App showing where 4,520 CS Mid-Tier farm environmental schemes covering >51,000ha arable land expire on 31st Dec due to government’s suspension of SFI.

Decades of taxpayer investment in nature to be erased while ministers ponder.

https://t.co/zuXsK9bMsZ

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

5,800 farms fall out of nature-friendly farming schemes at Christmas with the promised successor scheme closed indefinitely.

Three decades of taxpayers money invested in nature is about to be erased. At least offer a temporary extension @EmmaforWycombe.

https://t.co/tNj0tXMvsp

[Alice @aliceinwellies]

@agricontract This is the quote that has been going round and round in my head this season. Feel very ready to give up the fight

[𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫 🇺🇦 @DavidButler34]

Outrunning a grizzler gotta be worth 8 BASIS points.

[Kelly 🚜🌸 @KellyFarmWife]

Unearned wealth?
3:30am check calving cows
4:30am milk cow - feed calf
4:45 - 9am milking

Ed - farming
Me - work 9-5 around kids

7:30pm feed family
8:00pm milking
00:00 bed
I wouldn't change this life for the world. But I would change the world for this life.
@NoFarmsNoFoods

[Jeremy Squirrell @Jes_Squirrell]

After #Groundswell, usually I come away from it feeling inspired, and full of aspiration and drive for another year and a bright future. This year however, I haven’t.
Government policies have completely changed my thought process.
A thread 🧵@SteveReedMP @RachelReevesMP
1/19

[Tim Young @timyoung82]

An abstraction ban imposed by the @EnvAgency means these will be stood up for the foreseeable - huge knock to our profitability and the country’s #foodsecurity whilst gardens and grass keep getting water to look nice. Hosepipe ban must be in place asap - fair’s fair @NFUtweets

[Alice @aliceinwellies]

@Farmerdbarton Same here. Not a blade of grass left on the farm 🌵

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

Looking at the figures and taking reasonable estimates, it looks like DEFRA's budget for farming is being cut by about 20% in real terms over the next 3 years.

I guess food security isn't high on the pecking order.

[Tom Jewers @cutlerstom]

I’m wondering why I keep getting emails from @DefraGovUK banging on about crop rotation and selective pesticide use like farmers haven’t been practicing these techniques since the DAWN OF TIME.
We are in a world of trouble if Gov think stuff we already do is new and “the answer”

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Defra cuts coming, Steve Reed the environment secretary tells the enviro audit committee- he said the Office for Environmental Protection and the "rest of Defra" will "have to do more with less" and that the priority has to be "cutting NHS waiting lists"

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

The government is spinning that they are offering a record level of support for British farming

This is CATEGORICALLY UNTRUE

I’m not sure they understand this point…

Let me explain…

[Farmers Guardian @FarmersGuardian]

In response to Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Budget, FG has launched a new campaign to back Britain's family farms. 🇬🇧

"Small family farms are responsible for producing much of the food we eat, but the inequity in supply chains means they shoulder most of the risk for little reward."

FIND OUT MORE 🔗 https://t.co/5bNvWCuFf5
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#Farming #Countryside #AutumnBudget #FarmLife #FamilyFarms #InheritanceTax

[Karl Shlagel @k_shlagel]

Growing pumpkins can be fun.
Selling pumpkins is fun.
Feeding cows pumpkins with the manure spreader is so much fun it should be illegal.

[Alice @aliceinwellies]

@parker419 Great news and great to see that smile x

[Tom Excell @TomExcell1]

Flat to the mat running seed out for the new SFI scheme… more land out of food production. And me looking for a new job! Any Farm Manager positions out there, ideally south west of Oxford but will consider elsewhere?!

[Olivia Midgley @FGoliviamidgley]

We’re off! 🚜 #farm24 is back once again, to open the gates to the industry that connects us all 💚

[Alice @aliceinwellies]

@bencm305 We have done a few Crop It Like It’s Hot episodes on this but maybe more from a technical perspective than business https://t.co/pgIvHTG0sb

[Michael Kavanagh @Churchfarmkav]

It’s superb to see the fight coming back in @parker419. The Tim we all know and love will be back very soon with a little help from his many friends. Thank you @BeccyWoodTV for telling the story. Donate here: https://t.co/WaUi2Mpzok