@RobertJenrick@reformparty_uk Jenrick in April 2025: "It was completely unacceptable that ambulances were being blocked and millions of commuters were being subjected to hours of delays and misery" https://t.co/UvTmPFydcw In April 2026: "Come and block the roads for something the govt has no control over"
@harrym_vids These loss-leading prices are ridiculous and they should pay growers more, but it's false to say that they have "bumper profits year after year". Average margins are 3 % https://t.co/YCDWcq3SC2 which is a lot less than for growing wheat 2019 - 2024 https://t.co/SrX6qRDujf
@robhawkes Cool app! Few comments though - took me a while to notice the RHS toolbar and it's not clear what all the buttons do, would it be better if selecting one farm made it solid colour but left the others still visible? You have to click twice to switch between them. Legends?
@mohsinramay_ Are you using leafletproxy? It doesn't look like it and doing so would stop the map greying out when it's loading. Happy to help if you can link to the source.
@SciSustAg@mattwridley Why are you sharing this nonsense? I couldn't debunk it myself but see: https://t.co/rOjugTUrld it makes a mockery of your aim to "promote a conversation rooted in scientific evidence, rather than doctrine and ideology."
I know many of you will be shocked, but this piece by Matt Ridley in the @Telegraph on solar farms has quite a lot wrong with it
Let’s start with the impact on farming. Getting to the target of 70GW will take ~0.4-0.7% of English farmland
Not the ‘5-10%’ Ridley claims…
@CIMMYT This is cool work but it seems a bit silly to illustrate an article about satellite imagery with UAV imagery - as discussed in the paper the resolution of skysat is 0.5m which that clearly isn't
@AgBioWorld For the sake of any other attentive readers, the article says 1 mu = 15 ha when it should be 1 ha = 15 mu. Thus the yield was 8.6 t/ha, not 38 kg/ha!
@potatodoctor@OldTiredGrumpy@AgBioWorld There was a fair bit of research on padrons - see the refs in https://t.co/ylZ9nriNxx In my experience growing them, drought is probably the main factor, but it's always really variable. Never had a spicy one from the supermarket.
@SciSustAg The "one third of yield" is way off - more like 10-20 %. More significantly though, glycoalkaloids are insecticidal, antifungal and antioomycete - not really what compounds you want to be removing.
@JRDSills@HawfordFarm It would be fascinating to know how much was 'saved' by privatising @niabgroup@ADASGroup and the PBI vs. how much has been lost in decreased productivity.