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I'm a scientist, horse rider, animal lover and mid pack runner who likes food way too much.

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Learn a trade

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

It's 30°C in parts of Britain today. And the animals are struggling.☀️

Dairy cows in Cumbria are drinking twice as much water.
Milk yields are dropping.
Farmers are out there at 3am moving livestock to shade.

This isn't just a heatwave. This is another challenge for British farming.

The Irish government has already issued guidance - no transporting animals in the hottest part of the day.
What has the UK government said? Nothing new.

East of England just had one of the driest Aprils on record.
Crops already planted are failing.
This current hot spell is making everything worse.

A Lincolnshire arable farmer told the BBC his wheat is suffering.
That wheat becomes your bread.
Your pasta.
Your breakfast cereal.

One more week of this and thousands of acres of British crops will be written off.

Temperatures are rising. So are costs.
More water for livestock.
More diesel for ventilation.
More stress on the farmer.

The weather is getting harder. The government is getting quieter.

This isn’t to scaremonger, and it’s nothing British farmers haven’t weathered before (excuse the pun), just an opportunity to ask the question…

Is anyone in Westminster paying attention to what 32°C means for your food?

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This heat is all to much when you cant take your coat off.

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Can someone please turn the thermostat down, im seriously not built for this heat 🥵

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@BarryNSmith79 And dont forget teachers are parents too, what about getting to thier families

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@joewalk11929990 @DividendDrip I graduated in Chemistry 2003 I dont earn much more. Unless you want he hassel of management, you only get paid what the companies get back from the government. I work in Oxford and a graduate chmist will start on £23000. Some industries just pay crap.

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@LukeSimpleDiv @DividendDrip My council tax for a 2 bed house in bucks is £211, gas and electric £125, water £50, Internet £35 (cant shop around as have to use providers on the open fibre netork), mobile £17. It soon adds up.

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@ClarksonsFarm1 I have the best milk man from a local dairy, yes I ppay a few pence more but I know every penny is going to him. So worth it.

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Tight calves are not going to stop my progress. Foam roller out and kinesiology tape ordered. 😀

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Dont go uni

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C25k week5 run 5 done 😁

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Council tax bill just arrived, I live in a 2 bed semi-detached, and its increased 5.6% to £2235.006. So its nearly doubled since we moved in.

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Hopefully she gets whats coming to her.

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@Chris211162 😂

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@Chris211162 Oh my word, good luck

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The amount of money this bint has and she cant even buy a suit that fits.

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@S_Oberle I constantly walked the room, talked to students and gauge how they were doing not just in my lesson but in themselves to. However the grammar school didn't like that approach one bit.

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Owing another horse has just become a pipedream

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@Chris211162 Enjoy the retirement 😎