Mike Porter 🚜
@mikewporter
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3rd generation award winning farmer looking after part of Suffolk for the last 50 yrs using re-gen, renewables with wheat OSR peas naked oats & linseed
Suffolk UK
Joined September 2010
This is Shelley, Stan’s daughter. We wanted to let all you wonderful followers and friends know that Dad passed peacefully on November 4th. Thank you to all of you bringing him so much joy as he shared his little slice of bliss here in NL. Much love from Marlene & me
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As a farmer in NE Suffolk I am concerned of the proposed new 24inch water main to be installed by @eswater_care across our farm of 2.5km crossing 80 or more land drains and I am still trying to make contact with company or @SavillsRuralUK agent.
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Instead of raising taxes on British people we could choose to not spend this EVERY YEAR: ➡️£13 billion on foreign aid for other countries, like eco-farms in Nepal and condoms in Pakistan ➡️£12 billion on Net Zero which has given us some of the highest energy prices in the
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@ukhomeoffice Why haven’t you, as the Home Office, protected the people who live here? It’s been your job all these years.
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Back on May 1st this year, 4500 copies of Words From The Hedge trundled off the production line. Six months later, and a mere three hundred are left in bookshops. Grab a hardback copy while you still can, but fear not it's out in paperback in February.
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There’s plenty of sand and shingle out there for @crownestates to replenish beaches at Hemsby and Thorpeness @greatyarmouthbc @EastSuffolk #saveourcoastalvillages
Scroby Sands Wind Farm aerial view - off Great Yarmouth, was one of the UK’s first offshore wind farms when it opened in 2004. Its 30 turbines generate 60 MW. Built on shifting sandbanks, the site is also home to seals and seabirds. #Norfolk #WindFarm #aerial #image
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There is nothing more amazing than a kestrel hovering in the air. It's like time has stopped!
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Spare a thought for Mrs Jean Flick, her home now in the process of being demolished. (image from @EADT24 report)
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There’s not so many of these now it’s getting colder, but what a season it’s been 🍄 #FungiFriday
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Home now and fire lit. I just read that log fires kill a trillion billion people a year in this country. I’ve stuck my head out the door and there are literally no dead people outside, so I’m starting to doubt that study. I may put another log on though, just to see.
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The Peasenhall road in Walpole IP29 9BQ is flooded across as usual after the first rain for weeks @SuffolkHighways
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Innovative Japanese roads with built-in drainage keep surfaces dry
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Some of the Autumn colours from our garden. All have a good w/e @countrymousie @NaomiLWood @GardenerFliss @botany_beck
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MISLEADING VOTERS ON FARM INHERITANCE TAX Goverment ministers and MPs keep stating farmers should pay inheritance tax "like everybody else" and since they pay half the rate to domestic inheritance tax at 20% "they should not complain". This is intentionally misleading. Farm
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