Francis Megginson

Partner on the family farm and contracting business on the Yorkshire wolds

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson made £144 farming a thousand acres in his first year.

In year six he lost five thousand.

His own words to his land agent: dispiriting enough to clear a hundred and forty-four quid at the start, and here we are six years on, down five grand. The harvest had been projected at thirty-seven thousand profit. Weather and prices took it.

Now look at what that thousand acres has behind it that yours does not.

One of the best land agents in the country. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. A farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, bestselling books, more than a quarter of a million in subsidy across three years, and a television production paying for the entire thing to be filmed.

It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and the farming still loses money.

That figure should end every conversation about British agriculture, and it is the one number that never makes it onto a campaign graphic. Not the glyphosate. Not the pig housing. The margin.

Because everything people object to on a farm grows straight out of it. The field pushed to the very edge. The hedge that came out because the government paid to have it removed. The shed instead of the yard. The supermarket contract signed below cost because the alternative was no contract. Nobody intensified out of malice. They were priced into it over sixty years by a policy that decided cheap groceries mattered more than a countryside, and by a retail sector that kept the difference.

Britain now grows around sixty per cent of its own food. More than a third of British farmers are past sixty-five.

The man with the Amazon cheque cannot make a thousand acres pay.

The seventy-year-old with three hundred and no film crew is doing it anyway, and being told by people who have never sold a tonne of anything that he is the problem.

[Gareth Wyn Jones @1GarethWynJones]

Farmers not backing down are being arrested for a peaceful protest please support #farming #food
https://t.co/1FKMdsuXBd

[Pureblood Potter @potterthebookie]

Devon man has had enough.

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@basilthegreat Dam right

[angie goddard @angiegooner]

Absolutely disgraceful that Khan has been awarded a knighthood , when Kevin Sinfield has raised millions for the MND Charity and gets nothing. What a farce

[Gareth Wyn Jones @1GarethWynJones]

Won’t see this on Main Stream media outlets. #RealSpringWatch

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@davidwatson39 Don’t hold back Dave tell em what you think 😂👍

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

The Tim Parton rehabilitation fund https://t.co/A1ihul1L5h

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@RossLead @Yara_UK Is that 100kg/ha required just for maximum potential yield or protein as well?

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

"WE ARE FED UP"

The German farmers line up their tractors to show their message.

They are now protesting for the 6th day in a row.

SHARE because the mainstream media is hiding this 👇

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

The protests are spreading in France and the Dutch farmers are preparing to join them.

Thousands of truckers and bikers across Germany are coming to the support of the farmers and members of the public are fully on board as they seek the ousting of the Globalists from their Government.

The World Economic Forum cultists led by Klaus Schwab are reported to be doing everything in their power to suppress the news and stop the protests from spreading internationally.

Join us https://t.co/UAVXUozUqo

#Farmers #NetZero #ClimateScam #Germany #FreedomFighters #FreedomTrainInternational #GlobalResistance #WEF #WEF2030Agenda #France #Holland #DutchFarmers #GlobalistParasites #KlausSchwab

[Tuitt Heure @TuittHeure]

@clips_classic @simoninmadrid Happy Mas Cristo!

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@LozzaFox Brilliant.

[The Risk-Monger @zaruk]

Bayer won its 8th consecutive #glyphosate verdict. This shouldn't be surprising since the Predatorts are playing on pure emotion and no evidence.
But I couldn't find a single media article about it.
Is there a bias?
Now I find out they just won a 9th case.
https://t.co/DzayQp0px7

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

The next week looks like being the hottest start to an August in 120,000 years. Remember to wrap up against the unprecedented heat.

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@McGregorFarms @DJFuller1969 @tom_hoggan_ @CaseIH_UK_IRE @HORSCHUK How deep can you drill your peas with that rig?

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@WillJones016 Can’t beat getting it in early👍 just done ours

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@rob_cornelius Where’s all your food going to come from if you want it all as trees?

[Francis Megginson @woldtopper]

@explodingwalrus Why do you watch it if it dislike the people on it so much?

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

"Rob's probably the most inspirational bloke in the UK at this moment" ❤️

Rob Burrow's former teammate, Kevin Sinfield, who's raised money for MND causes, is recognised with a special BBC Sports Personality award.

📺📱 Watch live on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer.

#BBCSPOTY #SPOTY