Analysis by Land App showing where 4,520 CS Mid-Tier farm environmental schemes covering >51,000ha arable land expire on 31st Dec due to government’s suspension of SFI. Decades of taxpayer investment in nature to be erased while ministers ponder. https://t.co/zuXsK9bMsZ

Since it's conference season, here's a scene from the 2023 @NFUtweets conference when @Keir_Starmer came into the press room after addressing farmers at the conference. Here's a brief reminder of what he told farmers - enjoy 🧵(1/7)

No more dodging. No more excuses. It’s time for Rayner to go.

It’s a sign I tell you! Let’s hope this is going viral tomorrow!! #gtfc #manutd

Mbeumo misses! WE'VE DONE IT!!!!!!! Mariners: ✅✅❌✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ United: ✅✅✅✅❌✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅❌ #GTFC

Just been to check on the Lincoln Reds - wish I hadn’t

With badgers already proven to have TB on their land, I guess it was just a matter of time. Devastating news, but something that's mirrored throughout the farming community day-in, day-out. Badgers need controlling, it's as simple as that.

We’re in the same boat Tom, heard nothing from @Ruralpay on any hint of roll over, fallow plots for #lapwing, #skylark plots, rare arable flower margins, wild birds food mix, pollen and nectar etc- all under threat of going. 25years of stewardship 🤯

Why? Because it’s about protecting the job of one person over the generations of livelihoods and hard graft of tens of thousands who day in day out produce your food. 👇

Absolute rubbish @SteveReedMP You slashed the delinked payments last year by 76 % and have capped this years payment at £600. The SFI is now a shadow of its former self to new applicants, taxed pick up trucks and fertiliser, increased NI, got rid of the market for 2m tons of

Some serious happy lines on the homebred stock bull

70% of UK land is farmed. If we want nature to recover, this is where it happens. Farmers like @herdyshepherd1 are already doing it – farming with wildlife, not against it. But without proper funding, we risk losing it all. @RachelReevesMP: increase funding, grow our future.

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Unhelpfully for UK farmers - and the Prime Minister - the USA says at the ongoing press conference that the trade deal will "exponentially increase export of US beef" to the UK.

[insert comment on broken food system]

I’m really struggling with the idea that some of us are meant to deliver net zero by changing our healthy diets whilst others are building airports and roads and emissions heavy infrastructure That’s not a deal I’m signing up to - and neither is anyone else, as far as I can see

Just how stupid do you need to be to not understand that people that “do not make any money” can’t afford to pay more taxes ? How about we pay our tax based on a % of income and profit like everyone else does ? ……. now there’s a novel idea

We also ate about 80,000 tonnes of beef in December Demand up Prices up I remember going to an event at the COOP and all the retail ‘experts’ said plant based substitutes were the growth trend for the future They’ve gone very quiet - it crashed

And so it starts. @AngelaRayner ‘s wet dream. I’ve lost 80 acres of rented ground to new houses and associated BNG, and now I’m told I’m going to lose another 22 acres within the next three years. All very good quality farmland, producing high yields. @CLAtweets @NFUtweets

In 2023, Keir Starmer promised ‘a new relationship with the countryside.’ Yesterday, Labour’s Farming Minister revealed the truth. Farming isn’t a priority. Food security is at risk, and the countryside is being sidelined. The country deserves better. 🥀