Phil Archer

Farmer & Agricultural Contractor in Derbyshire.

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

YOU COULD NOT MAKE THIS UP IF YOU TRIED ......A Blackburn councillor who was fined for fly tipping a whole van load of his household rubbish at Witton Park in 2021 , has just been handed the enviromental porfolio, hes now responsible for fly tipping !! Hussain Akhtar got a £400 fine for doing his own dumping and now is in charge of enviromenatl matters !! Oh if you didnt laugh you would cry , this country is insane

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'This whole net zero craziness is costing us dearly. We're importing everything we could have produced here.'

Farmer and activist Olly Harrison offers an honest assessment of how dire the situation is for farmers up and down the UK.

[Phil Archer @archerfarming]

@ramsreview1 Elder didn’t do a lot wrong and Batth doesn’t do a lot right in my opinion

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

A tonne of wheat will make roughly 1,500 loaves of bread, so at 2026 ex farm prices there is only just over 10 pence worth of wheat in a loaf. Even if wheat prices doubled, the cost of bread would not double. The farmer carries the risk and does much of the work, yet ends up with only a tiny share of the final value.

So who is profiteering here ?

This is where government policy should be stepping in to restore fairness to the supply chain, after years of failure by both current and previous governments to stand up for farmers and consumers.
Prices don't need to double, value just needs to be distributed more fairly and sustainably

Farmers are not responsible for food price inflation. Anyone looking for the real source of pressure on food prices should start by examining recent supermarket profits.

[Bear @BearJFK]

The energy debate in Britain has to be the most retarded in the world, eclipsing even the Germans.

To anyone who has just started to listen-in, Britain appears to be the only part of the world where exploiting domestic hydrocarbons has zero impact on markets and is net negative to the national finances, and where the environmental impact is apparently uniquely damaging.
We taxed the N Sea oil & gas sector into oblivion, while importing £10bns worth from the Norwegians—from the same sea. We banned onshore shale gas exploration while importing it from the US. We’ve de facto banned coal mining and blew up our coal plants without reliable replacement.
We de sold off and de facto euthanised our civil nuclear sector, while making it virtually impossible to build new plants—those plants being built left ruinously expensive.
What new capacity we’ve built is made up of unreliable solar and wind, both of which require vast direct subsidises to be economical; and biomass, the largest producer of which is a former coal plant refitted to burn N American forests—with worse emissions and being more expensive than coal.
We sold off and decommissioned almost all our gas storage, leaving us with maybe 2 days capacity.
Our electricity production has contracted some 20% since 2005, while our population has increased by roughly the same.
The result: we have the most expensive electricity in the industrial world. What industry we had left is disappearing, and the wealth along with it.
Despite the wars, the prices and the loss of industry and the impact on our national BoP, our leaders have done precisely sweet F-ALL about it—Nay! They have double downed on the absurd policies.

Either we’re uniquely retarded, or we’re governed by utterly corrupt officials who are in the pocket of vested interests. Frankly, I think it’s both.

[Phil Archer @archerfarming]

Absolute madness

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Spain is ripping out centuries-old olive groves for solar farms. Trees that took decades to reach maturity are being uprooted for panel arrays.

This is a direct land-for-energy trade.

26 terawatt-hours of output from solar requires roughly 130,000 acres, whereas a modern nuclear plant would deliver that same power using just 430 acres. That is a land gap approaching 300 to 1.

Solar's footprint is not just panels. It is roads, fencing, substations, transmission lines and backup systems.

Spain already stress-tested a high-renewables grid.

In April 2025, a nationwide blackout followed low-grid inertia and heavy reliance on inverter-based generation. The gov is doubling down on this failure.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Spain is ripping out centuries-old olive groves for solar farms. Trees that took decades to reach maturity are being uprooted for panel arrays.

This is a direct land-for-energy trade.

26 terawatt-hours of output from solar requires roughly 130,000 acres, whereas a modern nuclear plant would deliver that same power using just 430 acres. That is a land gap approaching 300 to 1.

Solar's footprint is not just panels. It is roads, fencing, substations, transmission lines and backup systems.

Spain already stress-tested a high-renewables grid.

In April 2025, a nationwide blackout followed low-grid inertia and heavy reliance on inverter-based generation. The gov is doubling down on this failure.

[Richard Negus @TrooperSnooks]

Just a word of advice to our lame duck PM via history. If wars start kicking off, best we address our food security tout suite. Those wanky old solar panels won't fill a hungry belly.

[Penny @phughes76340646]

What do you think

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Two brilliant responses today:

1. No idea how the IPCC could have high confidence that human emissions of mainly CO₂, which has increased from 3 CO₂ molecules in 10,000 of the atmosphere to 4 in 10,000 in the past 50/60 years or so, is responsible for "climate change".

2. There is absolutely zero evidence that man-made CO₂ or CH₄ (methane) is materially affecting earth’s temperature.

That whole story is the biggest fraud ever orchestrated.

[Richard Kane @farmerkaney]

And buy solar panels and ad blue.... oh wait, where are both those products made? 🤔

[Phil Archer @archerfarming]

Was really privileged to meet him a few weeks ago and chatted to him for ages. What an absolutely amazing guy.

[Gav @Gav1981]

Legend!!! #dcfc #dcfcfans

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The Labour government did this. Shame on them.

[Julian Voelcker @julian_voelcker]

I always find this pretty shocking - they will have paid fortunes to do the climb, but to them just leave their rubbish shows and astounding arrogance.

You expect this from Glastonbury visitors, but I expect more from climbers.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Why solar panels cannot realistically power the electricity grid of a prosperous first world economy.

"To power 100,000 homes for one hour, you need 50,000 tonnes of solar panels."

"If I want to produce this hour of electricity in the evening when the Sun isn't shining, well then I need batteries."

"For one hour of electricity for this 100,000 homes, you need... about two basketball courts worth of batteries."

"But of course I have to charge these batteries, so that means I need additional solar in the grid so that we have an excess to charge them. So we add another [10,000 tonnes] of solar panels."

"This is for one hour."

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Once the farmland is gone, it’s gone forever. It never returns. We lose our countryside at our peril. No farmers, no food.
@NoFarmsNoFoods

[@No1sunkfarmer ©️ @no1sunkfarmer]

Blame the cows, blame the farmers. What a load of bollocks.

[Alan @A1an_M]

Here's a thought.
How about we abandon Net Zero, stop defiling the landscape with useless windmills and solar panels, build more nuclear stations, burn coal and gas in the meantime, and give ourselves energy that's so cheap we don't need to pay anyone a winter fuel allowance.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Once the farmland is gone, it is gone forever. It never returns. We lose our beautiful countryside and food security at our own peril. No Farmers, No Food.

@NoFarmsNoFoods 🚜