Richard

Farmer.
Cricket.
Rugby.
Labradors.
Vinyl.
Somerset.
Groundsman and lethal leggie at @longsuttoncc_
Swears.

[Richard @dickie034]

@Keir_Starmer Don't you dare do a deal to let USA chlorinated chicken, hormone and antibiotic growth promoted beef into this country.
These aren't allowed in the welfare standards producers apply here or legally, so why should we import it?

[Richard @dickie034]

@Shuttlecoc78580 @WG_RumblePants Ta.

[Richard @dickie034]

@WG_RumblePants Ta.

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Richard @dickie034]

@antgib @SomersetCCC @BBCSport Yup, rained of 4pm at Langport vs Long Sutton last saturday, retired to Eli's for cider and pool.

[Richard @dickie034]

@antgib @ToppersSnr @bbcbristolsport Enjoying the commentary from Long Sutton Cricket Club whilst preparing the pitch for next week's season's opening friendly! Richard Yandle.

[Richard @dickie034]

@antgib @SomersetCCC @bbcbristolsport Definitely Seaxes on The Essex badge

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

The Importance of Targeted Predator Control

10 years after predator control ended on a study site in the Uplands, this is what happened to wildlife populations:

📈 Fox: 78% increase
📈 Carrion Crow: 127% increase
📉 Black Grouse: local extinction
📉 Grey Partridge: local extinction
📉 Red Grouse: 71% decline
📉 Golden Plover: 81% decline
📉 Snipe: 76% decline
📉 Curlew: 24% decline
📉 Lapwing: 58% decline

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Almonds are an environmental catastrophe.

People hear that and assume you mean in some abstract, projected, 2050 kind of way.

No. Present tense. Happening now. Today, while someone posts about their oat-and-almond-milk morning ritual and refers to it as 'conscious consumption.'

- 1.1 trillion gallons of water used annually in California alone
- 1,900 gallons required to produce a single pound of almonds
- 10% of California's entire water supply consumed during historic drought conditions
- Approximately 50 billion bees killed per year from pesticide and fungicide exposure during mass pollination events
- Entire Central Valley sections converted to monoculture desert requiring permanent irrigation infrastructure
- Fungicide cocktails applied during February bloom, peak bee vulnerability, routinely implicated in colony collapse
- Almonds provide essentially no complete protein, moderate oxalate load, and require industrial processing to make palatable
- Virtually every almond ever eaten has been shipped internationally at least once

The person drinking almond milk in a reusable cup is, on balance, responsible for the deaths of more living creatures before 9am than a British beef farmer manages in a fortnight.

But the cow breathed out, so.

[Richard @dickie034]

Gotta laugh.
All the Labour MPs coming out of the woodwork, telling us how great the IHT U turn is for their farmer constituents.
Didn't see them voting/campaigning against it
Hypocrites
Create a problem for a half a billion quid and then look like heros when the u turn comes.

[FarmingUK @FarmingUK]

Dozens of tractors in the very heart of London this morning 🚜🚜

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Supermarkets are shrines to UPFs

Look at the middle aisles - entirely devoted to them

Look at the discount policy - the stuff farmers produce, so the discount is from them not the supermarkets

Our entire food system has been corporate captured and it’s making is sick

[Richard @dickie034]

@TrisOsborneMP You are not.

[Richard @dickie034]

@paullewismoney Showing your ignorance relating to tax issues, red diesel is not duty free.

[Richard @dickie034]

@RachelReevesMP @hmtreasury Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

[Richard @dickie034]

@CarlBovisNature Yup.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

It’s amazing how many people who’ve never set foot on a farm know exactly how farming should be done.

[Richard @dickie034]

@Keir_Starmer I'll finish that for you, shall I? - ......of everyone in every part of the UK, except for rural businesses and communities.

[Richard @dickie034]

@bluesoundhifi Once again your awful app has crashed.(windows and android) What does 'audio output error' mean? Several thousand pounds of hifi now useless. Fed up with this. Music index recognised but won't play. Fed up....

[Richard Negus @TrooperSnooks]

Starmer spaffing £35 million of our money on Madagascan lemurs, while our countryside lies bleeding...@PaddyGalbraith in @Telegraph

https://t.co/3gEeHQAPUg