Why are urea prices so high?
China "normally" exports 5 - 5.5M tons per year.
2024 exports - 266K
January/February 2025 combined - 4,052 tons
Not 4 million.
Not 400,000.
Not 40,000.
4,000 tons. That is 5M missing tons from a global 50 - 55M ton export market.
🚨How Europe INCREASED its reliance on Russian fertiliser🌾
Despite its rhetoric, the EU is buying MORE Russian fertilisers now than pre-2022.
It's one of many blind spots in the sanctions regime: EU may not pay Russia for oil but it paid Russia €5bn for fertiliser since 2022(!)
🚜FARMAGEDDON🌾
The story of what's REALLY going on in farming. A story far more complex than the conventional wisdom.
This isn't just (or even mainly) about inheritance tax. It's about a cascade of challenges & crises that may ultimately threaten food security.
📽️5 min primer👇
The extreme wet weather of the last 6 months is having a massive impact on this farm. Spring drilling is weeks behind now with remaining fields still saturated, and conditions for outdoor lambing sheep are diabolical - the business of food production currently feels very hard!
THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/
In my lifetime we have seen atmospheric carbon rise by 50%
We have also seen:
World population ⬆️76%
Cars on the road ⬆️225%
Air passengers ⬆️575%
Oh, and let’s not forget…
worldwide cattle ⬇️ 5%
Let’s act on on the true cause and not what the money “tells” us to do.
#COP26
This is very unfair Jenny. A lot of us farmers were not Brexiteers & the majority of us are certainly not in climate change denial. We are part of the solution against climate change. Fairness in a policy that will not cost thousands of jobs and decimate communities is needed
The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) has welcomed the announcement that the Genetic Technology (#PrecisionBreeding) Bill has been granted Royal Assent to become an Act of Parliament.
This is a hugely significant piece of legislation!
https://t.co/BY9eCRImEx
It’s debate day in parliament for our #GetFairAboutFarming petition. We’ve brought 49 scarecrows with us, representing the 49% of farmers who fear they’ll go out of business in the next 12 months. Is this the day we start to see some seeds of change ? It couldn’t be more urgent🌱