Martin Perry

All comments are my own, etc

[Martin Perry @CbotPerry]

@robert_heath @shanaka86 Agreed. You think it's a surprize that US farmers need nitrogen for their crops in mid-March? Most of them will have bought it in Nov25, and have it dlvd already on-farm.

[Karen Braun @kannbwx]

🇧🇷Cargill has paused soybean exports from Brazil to China due to the implementation of stricter sanitary inspections at the request of the Chinese government.

[Martin Perry @CbotPerry]

Latest SECAL Lecture @Churchers1722 from @Bartholomews

[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

Cromwell seed oats being combined in East Ashling, West Sussex. Coming in at 60kg/hl!
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#EastAshling #WestSussex #SeedOats #Agriculture #CropHarvest #OatProduction

[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

Markets flat but likely found the bottom. Big yields + strong quality across the north. UK harvest 2 weeks early—early samples look great. Brief rain Tuesday, then more dry. Old crop still clogging movement—plan ahead if you need to shift grain! 🌾 #MondayMarketBriefing
https://t.co/VheESlAV1T

[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

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[Martin Perry @CbotPerry]

@TheBlackSeal The loafers are a bit of a giveaway

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Anyone need a quick lesson about how Trump's tariffs (massive tax) will have a devastating impact on our economy, this 40 second clip from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" will explain it all:

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

[Berkshire Farm Girl 🚜🌾🇬🇧 @LittleBigFarm]

Harvest 2024 milling wheat being loaded off farm with @bartsagri ready for the millers to make bread with.

#bread #millingwheat #farming #food #farmingfood #foodlover #farmers #farmerscarry #transport #transportdesign

[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

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[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

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[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

This season, new high-yielding soft wheat varieties like Bamford challenge farmers to apply enough nitrogen to achieve 11.5% protein for premium export markets. For 10 MT/ha yield, 250-280 kg N/ha is needed. Full report: https://t.co/Xbwvk3qoWA

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Here's a 🎶 twist on @coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque disrespectful media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with @ZelenskyyUa 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem

[Martin Perry @CbotPerry]

@Rainmaker1973 @Wheatdude
Nothing compared to Marnhull

[Mike Lee @GreenSquareAC]

We use growing season rainfall figures to help us with our crop production forecasts, and we are already seeing a difference between this year and last year in Ukraine.

https://t.co/SVCs1q7Ctn

[Martin Perry @CbotPerry]

@bouta_nt @burgess_ag That is definitely you in Episode 1

[Andrey Sizov @sizov_andre]

Too wet for too long...French #wheat crop conditions have dropped to record-low for recent years

#oatt #agwx

[Bartholomews @BartsAgri]

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