Moss Cronin

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or an idiot from any direction

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

@ArableSam @JJ_Fishy @ClaydonDrill @TomTierney18 This fella the only fella winning these days!!! 🙈

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

@ArableSam Just got soaked going across the field. Never happier!! 😆🤞

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

https://t.co/AZkUZfEOFf

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "We should plant trees to fight climate change."
Farmer: "On grassland?"
Activist: "Everywhere possible."
Farmer: "Grassland soil stores 200 tonnes of carbon per hectare. Trees on the same soil? Maybe 100."
Activist: "But trees sequester faster..."
Farmer: "Above ground. Where it burns. Grassland accumulates below ground. Where it stays."
Activist: "Trees are permanent..."
Farmer: "Until fire, disease, drought, or logging. My soil carbon has been accumulating for 8,000 years."
Activist: "Surely trees are better..."
Farmer: "Better at what? Looking impressive? Grassland's better at stable, long-term carbon storage."
Activist: "Why doesn't anyone talk about this?"
Farmer: "Because planting trees makes good photos. Maintaining grassland doesn't."

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

@ArableSam @Kay2_Kelly_ @DarraghScott I could have more than 1! I might even show you how to milk her and her friends!! 🤣🤣

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

@ArableSam @audlemagronpaul You’d swear a fell knew what he was doing!! 🤣🤣🙈

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

@ArableSam @CallansCows @DLF_IRL @EdwardKehoe7 Serious crop. When was it sown? Can’t beat getting it sown nice and early

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

All over Europe for months on end, farmers have been protesting against government policies that threaten their livelihoods. Support our farmers.

Because No Farmers, No Food.
#NoFarmersNoFood

[Agriland @AgrilandIreland]

Cycle fundraiser for Marymount in honour of Cork dairy farmer #Sponsored
https://t.co/LRej3srrGx

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

Jeremiah Ronayne Memorial Cycle Fundraising Page @iDonate_ie https://t.co/BKjjoZTFu8 #iDonate_ie

[Nadaline Webster @NadalineW]

It's funny how much denial there is around the emissions figures from agriculture being wrong - which they are. This is just a fact and here are the ways in which they are wrong:

1) Overestimated - in Ireland, the volume of actual methane that comes from cows is overestimated by around 20%.

2) Over-multiplied - across the globe the volume of methane is multiplied to give a CO2 equivalent figure which the IPCC say overstates the warming by methane from cattle by 300 - 400%.

3) The CO2 that produces the methane is counted as being returned to the atmosphere as both CO2 and methane which is incorrect.

But that's just the methane. We also have:

4) Emissions from non-agricultural activities is included in 'agriculture' - such as commercial use of fertilisers by forestry, sporting facilities (like golf courses), amenity facilities, County Councils etc.

5) Every farm creates both removals and emissions. Only emissions from livestock, fertiliser and agricultural transport are counted in 'agriculture'. All the removals are counted in LULUCF (Land Use, Land Use Change & Forestry). So as an example, grass growing in a field is in LULUCF. But the second a cow eats it, it moves into 'agriculture'.

6) The 'decarbonisation' exception in reporting guidelines means that farmers who provide fuels to other sectors (such as cattle carcasses being used for biofuels in transport) are not recognised for the contributions they make already in 'decarbonising' other sectors because they are 'invisible'.

Try for a second to imagine how you would feel if you were treated this way by your government. All the good you do is either invisible or in another sector where it doesn't count. All the bad you do is over-estimated, over-multiplied and double-counted.

Farmers have every right to be angry. And every right to seek to have it corrected. And every right not to be taxed, denied essential services or otherwise penalised on the basis of figures that we know are wrong.

And yes, I do know what I'm talking about. I spent 18 months researching and writing a book about it. For those in Ireland who would like to order the paperback and can't get it on the UK Amazon store, you can get it here: https://t.co/aJUtm9Dx7L

[James Freeman @james_freeman__]

🚜 THE LIE that cows are killing the climate broken down in 3 minutes

🐄 #NoFarmersNoFood #FarmersProtest2024

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

🔊 … sound on

BREAKING: The EU have surrendered to the farmers

1. Dropping its 30% reduction target on emissions from farming

2. Reversing unrealistic pesticide quotas

3. Allowing more land for agricultural use

4. Agreeing to stop telling EU citizens to eat less meat

🚨🚨🚨

[Charles Goadby @thisfarmlife]

We must see a duty of care within the food supply chain to farmers and producers if we are to maintain production and food security in this country. #FairTrade #Fairbruary

[Moss Cronin @mosscr89]

@AlanBurton12 Send me a pm. Can’t message you directly

[Conor O Leary @conorcoleary]

Some amount of roadworks going on in France tonight.🚜🚜🚜🚜

[Kieran Sullivan @kieran_sullivan]

Waterford farmers showing solidarity with European colleagues tonight @SeanKellyMEP @BillyKelleherEU @GraceOSllvn @DeirdreCluneMEP @farmersjournal @AgrilandIreland @IFAmedia @MattShanahanTD @MaryButlerTD @davidcullinane @MarcKC_Green

[OSINT Expert @OsintExperts]

🇧🇪🇨🇵🚜🚧⚠️⚡🚨 ‼️#ALERT – Revolution News:
French and Belgian farmers are NOW jointly blocking the Franco-Belgian border this evening between Sedan and Bouillon. 
They will stay at least 24 hours.
#FarmersProtest

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

MASSIVE 🚜🚜🚜

The German farmers are STILL protesting against tax increases, their are not giving up.

SHARE - The mainstream media is not showing this 👇

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The German farmers protest has only received limited amounts of media coverage. Farmers protests are springing up across Europe and it should be headline news everywhere. Sometimes the most telling story is the one that the media doesn’t broadcast.