Will Case

Livestock farmer, free range egg producer. Amazing wife and 3 boys. Trying to breed Texel sheep. FG writer. NFU ambassador. You get out what you put in…

[Will Case @will_case]

I was asked to sponsor our kids rugby kit and decided rather than put our business name on it I’d do this…
Good for farming and the community. Would be great to see this all round the UK🇬🇧🐑🐄🐂🚜🌾🐓🐖
#BackBritishFarming

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism.

One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled.

The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy.

Meanwhile, in Cheshire.

A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain.

She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco.

To recap.

600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water.

Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food.

The shopper picks the almond.

She has been told this is the ethical position.

The aquifer would like a word.

[Will Case @will_case]

#bluebell update 😍👌

[Will Case @will_case]

@cumbriaoldrural Not many but they’re there 😇👍

[Will Case @will_case]

I’ve not posted on here for a long time but here’s one for the old school people that are still around… first #bluebells ❤️👍

[Will Case @will_case]

@cumbriaoldrural Look harder 😉

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

“We are a rich country and can import our food”.

[Will Case @will_case]

@herdyshepherd1 For balance I’m adding a sheep picture 😇

[Will Case @will_case]

@herdyshepherd1 I can see why you would have mixed feelings about it, but it’s correct ✅

[Farmer Tom 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @Farmer_Tom_UK]

HELP! The Govt rushed through Inheritance Tax changes with no proper consultation. Family farms & businesses are at risk. Jobs, heritage & communities will be lost. I’m taking them to Judicial Review — please support 👉 https://t.co/JN2OdKCaUY

#SaveFamilyFarms #StopTheFamilyFarmTax
#BackBritishBusiness #NoToUnfairTax

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

In a report commissioned from CBI Economics, evidence suggests (to nobody's surprise) that rather than increasing tax take, the proposed changes to APR/BPR will overall lead to a net loss of £1.9bn over the Parliament.

Keir Starmer explained to the Gov't Liaison Committee that this was a revenue-raising measure and nothing more. Given the evidence shows it will actually cost the Treasury money, the best thing to do now would be to reverse the proposal.

https://t.co/03UQetSfTJ

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

@GeorgeR21234525 I don’t understand this

It’s like saying we don’t need nurses because some of them voted for BREXIT

It is nonsense

Even if all nurses voted for BREXIT we’d still need healthcare and in it lots of nurses

We wouldn’t then say ‘oh, nurses had it coming’

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

The family farm tax is a disaster for Britain's food security and will rob many young people of the opportunity to farm.

If you agree with the @LibDems that the Government should axe the family farm tax then please sign and share our petition today: https://t.co/53jK5EIB14

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

The latest goverment guff about farming is…

“The problem with farming is the lack of profitability”

This is a short thread on why this sensible-sounding focus should be treated with great suspicion…

A 🧵

[Will Case @will_case]

The trouble with “growth at all costs” is there’s a price to pay…

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

I hope I am wrong… but the signs are that we are about to be sold down the river… I wrote this…

https://t.co/GbhC4J40Yy

[Tom Wright @turbotechdog]

£2.5bn for British steel. That’s the same as the annual budget for agriculture….

Steel industry employs 33,700 - contributes £1.8bn to the economy 🏭

Agriculture employs 285,000 - contributes £13.7bn to the economy 🌾

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

Steel is important.

Food more so.

Why are they straining every sinew to save one, and destroy the other?

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Supply down
Demand rising
Cost up

Food price inflation is gonna get off the chart soon - total insanity

[Will Case @will_case]

First #bluebell 😍👍

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Are they F :-)

They’ve literally invited a committee of wolves to discuss the safety for Red Riding Hood and her grandmother

[Will Case @will_case]

Good luck young man. You’re embarking on a wonderful journey. It won’t be easy, but nothing worth doing is.
Don’t over celebrate the victories and don’t berate yourself too much when things go wrong (they will!)
Work hard, be patient, be observant, be kind and you’ll do great 👍

[Wheezy Rider @WheezyRider44]

@will_case Will, my son's dream is to become a farmer. He's currently on work experience on a farm in North Yorkshire. Here he is with a new pal. He's currently saving for a Shepherd's crook. Would you be able to give him some words of encouragement as he pursues his dream?