Gary_Shipley

Hello, I'm Gary Shipley I manage a family run, mixed farm on the Yorkshire Wolds. Thoughts are my own

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

⚠️ HOW THE LABOUR PARTY IS SPENDING YOUR MONEY ABROAD -

- £235m Ukraine
- £225m Ethiopia
- £171m Afghanistan
- £145m Syria
- £144m Yemen
- £80m Kenya
- £68m Jordan
- £65m Myanmar
- £62m Bangladesh
- £143m Somalia
- £60m Nepal
- £270m Sudan
- £56m Lebanon
- £56m Tanzania
- £50m Malawi
- £130m Palestine
- £117m Nigeria
- £107m Congo
- £310m World Health Organisation

Yet there is no money for the pot holes, NHS, police on the streets, help for the homeless? and many more? The country they are governing is failing. yet give billions away to grow other countries?

You couldnt make it up‼️

[Matthew Blair @ThrimbyFarms]

A great video from a friend, Charles. We have struggled to make words fit but Charles has done it well. Comparing the eradication approach to TB to the eradication of problems in Humans.

Please listen, please share. We as farmers need people to understand how mad this is. Tag your MPs

Thanks

[MrBounceBack.com @Bounce_BackLoan]

Breaking: The deranged UK Government has spent, drum roll, a mind-blowing £1,856,732.00 on their shitty fuel finder app. Let that sink in and feel free to share. They have seriously lost the fucking plot.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Some corrections:
You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that?
Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done.
Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7.
Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant.
UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

After eighteen months of chaos, things are about to get much worse.

Under this Labour government, farmers have already seen the Sustainable Farming Incentive stopped, delinked payments slashed and a fertilizer tax introduced. They have had to fight tooth and nail to force a partial U-turn on the Chancellor’s disastrous Family Farm Tax, and now Labour are once again gambling with the very survival of Britain’s farming sector and our nation’s food security.

As this report by CropLifeUK makes it crystal clear, ‘retrospective alignment' risks wiping up to £810 million off farm profits in a single year, the loss of 9,000 jobs and severlely damaging British food security.

It would be a total failure of leadership to sacrifice our hard-won regulatory independence on the altar of a 'reset' with Brussels.

We must protect the innovative crop protection products already safely in use here and ensure that decisions made by and for Britain’s farmers remain valid and in our interests.

Anything less would be yet another betrayal of our rural economy and the industry as a whole - just as we thought things couldn’t get worse.

Full report 👇

https://t.co/BGnR0vThVL

[Gary_Shipley @FarmHuggate]

@cattlefinishers Always keen for a chat

[Gary_Shipley @FarmHuggate]

@SimonKelly14 @FarmingUK Sorry Simon I will just leave this here, it is a common misconception that more farmers voted for BREXIT than the general public.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The "1,800 gallons of water goes into making one pound of beef" statistic is brilliant deception.

They calculate "water footprint" using three categories: green water (rainfall), blue water (actual irrigation), and grey water (theoretical dilution water).

For beef, 94% is green water. Rain falling on pasture that cattle drink and piss back within days. This rain was falling anyway. It's the natural water cycle.

Only 4% is blue water - actual irrigation.

For almonds? They often only report blue water and leave out green water calculations they included for beef.

Actual blue water comparison:

Beef: 50 liters per liter
Almonds: 600 liters per liter

Almonds use 12 times more actual irrigation than beef. But the headline says beef uses more water because they counted rain falling on pasture.

British beef: 90% of water is rainfall on permanent pasture in Wales and Scotland. Rain that falls constantly whether cattle are there or not. The cattle drink it, piss it back, it returns to the water table within days. Closed loop.

California almonds: 80% of world's almonds grown in chronic drought region. Pumping groundwater from aquifers that took 10,000 years to fill. The Central Valley is literally sinking as water is drained. Some areas have dropped 28 feet.

One borrows from the rain cycle. One mines prehistoric water reserves. But the statistics make you draw the opposite conclusion.

[Andrew Ward 🇬🇧🚜 @wheat_daddy]

If ever proof was needed that Starmer does not listen to his own MP’s, here it is. 🤷‍♂️

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Today Rishi Sunak has a choice:

Continue with his unfair tax rise at the worst possible time.

Or, cancel his tax rise and cut energy bills with a windfall tax on oil and gas profits.

Labour would act now to ease the cost of living. We are on the side of working people.

[Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber @agricontract]

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
John F. Kennedy

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

An intradepartmental study from the University of California, concluded that lab-grown meat may be up to 25 times worse for the environment than 🐄 natural, pasture-raised retail beef.

[Mary Colwell @curlewcalls]

Free running dogs DO disturb nesting birds. PLEASE keep them on a lead in the breeding season.
🎥Borys Kala - Polish Society for Nature Conservation

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

A brilliant summary of how the UK government are hoovering up huge amounts of tax revenues on the back of farmers providing our food security.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Stop blaming cows.

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

Far-left gobshite absolutely schooled on the reality of farming outside of the soundbites she's been given to repeat.

[Charlie Dewhirst MP @charliedewhirst]

I’ve been speaking to Ministers about the livestock disease threat posed by imports of illegal meat for a number of years. The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Germany is a timely reminder that we need to do more to increase biosecurity at our borders.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Debunking the cow methane myth:

After 10 years, cow methane is broken down into CO2, entering a biogenic carbon cycle absorbed by plants via photosynthesis, carbon sequestration in the soil, converted into cellulose, eaten by cows and the cycle repeats. True sustainability.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“A typical 200-acre arable farm owned with an expected annual profit of £27,300 could face an inheritance tax liability of £435,000, new modelling shows.”

These are the harsh economic facts - unlike the misleading figures given by the Treasury.

https://t.co/FytlWIvUbT

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. And it is no good thinking that someone else will pay—that "someone else" is you.

There is no such thing as public money, there is only taxpayers' money.

Prosperity won't come by inventing more and more lavish public expenditure programs. You don't grow richer by ordering another chequebook from the bank.

No nation ever grew more prosperous by taxing its citizens beyond their capacity to pay.

We have a duty to make sure that every penny piece we raise in taxation is spent wisely and well.