Cath Morley 🐮🐄

Born & bred in #Derbyshire, now running a Diary Farm with my husband in #Lancashire. Opinion writer for Farmers Weekly. All views my own 🐄🐮🐮🐄

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

#happycows chewing the cud! #TeamDairy 🐄🐄🐮🐮😀

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@AnnSull91955949 @TheGriftReport @Melanie18971658 He would have got prosecuted by the environment agency for polluting the water!
I wonder if the people in the pond at Hampstead will face similar punishment? Unlikely.

[martin williams @loosecollie]

If you went to #farmfest what did you think of it?

Was it great, or was it bad, was it enjoyable, was the music good?

Would you go again next year?

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@loosecollie We absolutely loved it. Some tweaks needed but on the whole it was fab. Great atmosphere, lots to do & see.
Response from our teenagers were “this has been the best weekend of our lives, can we come again next year!”
So it looks like we will be!
Please book the weather ☀️ 😎

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@Evsthetractor Absolutely. We were there all weekend, camped over. Had an absolute blast. I thought it was great.

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@loosecollie @agricontract Might catch you for a beer. 🍻

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

The scary thing about supermarket food price caps is that we already know how this ends.

The supermarkets protect their margins, the processors protect theirs, and the squeeze gets pushed straight back onto farmers ☹️

Not a penny off billions in supermarket profits, but another cut for the people producing the food.

A serious government would focus on securing fertiliser, energy and domestic food production to prevent shortages and inflation in the first place.

But that would require understanding that food comes from farms, not supermarkets.

@agricontract @loosecollie @wheat_daddy @TheFarmingForum @GBNEWS @Iromg @MartinDaubney

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#Farming #FoodSecurity #UKFarming #Agriculture #CostOfLiving #FoodPrices #Inflation #Tesco #Farmers #EnergyCrisis #FoodSupply

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1946 the British government introduced free school milk for every child in the country. One third of a pint, every school day, from the age of five to the age of fifteen.

The milk was whole. Full-fat. From British dairy herds. It was delivered to the school gate in small glass bottles with foil caps and left on the doorstep in metal crates, where it sat in the sun until morning break if the weather was warm and developed a slightly suspect taste that an entire generation of British adults can still describe with uncomfortable precision.

The generation that grew up on school milk was, by every anthropometric measure, the healthiest generation of British children ever recorded.

Average height increased. Bone density improved. Dental health, despite the sugar in everything else, improved. Iron deficiency rates among school-age children dropped. The growth charts that the Ministry of Health had been keeping since the war showed a consistent, measurable, year-on-year improvement that tracked precisely onto the introduction of the milk programme.

In 1971 Margaret Thatcher, then Education Secretary, cut free school milk for children over seven. The tabloids called her Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. She was vilified. She kept the policy.

The next generation of British children, the ones who grew up without the daily third of a pint, were measurably less healthy than the one before.

The growth charts show it. The dental records show it. The conscription medicals, while they lasted, showed it. The thing the milk had been providing, the calcium, the vitamin D, the vitamin A, the complete amino acid profile, the conjugated linoleic acid, the fat-soluble nutrients that a growing skeleton requires in order to reach its genetic potential, was no longer arriving at morning break in a glass bottle with a foil cap.

It was replaced, eventually, by nothing. Or by a carton of fruit juice. Or by a packet of crisps from the vending machine that appeared in the school corridor in the 1990s.

The generation that drank the milk is now in its seventies and eighties. They are, on average, taller, stronger-boned, and longer-lived than the generation that came after them.

The milk was not magic.

The milk was milk.

It was the thing the body needed, delivered at the time the body needed it, at a cost the government considered acceptable until it didn't.

The cost of not providing it has been rather higher.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Found today on a Lancashire farm! A 1950s note that proves farming life hasn’t changed as much as we think..

📸 Margaret Lees

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@Jaynes__World If I’m honest I didn’t go looking through it! I didn’t have any gloves 🧤 x

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

Wonder how on earth I can find a flytipped load of sharps and medical waste in my field gateway. Surely the disposal of this stuff is more regulated?

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@thepdviking I read about this. Absolute madness! I wonder what planet these people are on. The whole idea is absolutely ridiculous. All Peak District residents should be up in arms about it, well done for standing up & saying “Sod off” 🙂

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@Ampandrew @ThrimbyFarms It’s been awful. We put our slurry & fert on & then it absolutely pissed it down ( not forecast) & the whole bloody lot washed off. 2 dead cows & I got properly done over by another, broken ribs & bruised.
Absolute shit show here.I feel for anyone lambing sheep.

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

Any kind of human presence on the moon should be strictly limited. There should be international policy to promise to protect it. No mining for valuable resources, no space bases for mars.
Our moon is vital for life on earth. It should be left well alone.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Harry Metcalfe @harrym_vids]

British Farming is struggling right now and here’s why.
We no longer value food, unless it’s been highly processed. That’s why farmers can’t make a profit while supermarkets continue to enjoy bumper profits year after year

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain.
Please #retweet!
Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year!
So important to #share!
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[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@ThrimbyFarms Love how he waves you through!
Enjoy, in a flash he will be driving and you will be back doing the gate!!

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

Brilliant performance by The Hawkstone Farmers Choir. They so deserved the Golden buzzer 👏👏🇬🇧🚜 @JeremyClarkson

[Jayne Halhead @Jaynes__World]

MY Grrreat Nephew Archie (fourth generation Halhead to farm at #BayHorse) sent me these photos of your tartan-wrapped tractor in #Carnforth #Lancashire during its tour, @MNDoddie5 Foundation! 💙💛

#MND #MoreNeedsDoing!

@ceresrural

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

I'm no bird expert, but I'm quite confident these two are married.

[Cath Morley 🐮🐄 @cathmorley]

@theladyfarmer That looks absolutely amazing. So much variety, it’s almost like a restaurant menu! No wonder British kids are fussy eaters when all they get in school is tomato pasta or fish and chips. This encourages children to try all foods. Do you know if it is locally sourced?