If you haven't already listened in, could I just recommend the excellent AGonomics podcast from AHDB. Here is the latest episode: open.spotify.com/episode/2PMT...

Food 4 Thought 🏛️Farming is the foundation of our civilisation 🪖Digging 4 victory was key to surviving WWII ½ 🌍 population is only alive now due to the Green Revolution 🍽️ Humans need more food in next 25yrs than in all history combined 📈 Climate is making it harder 👇😬 x.com/EdConwaySky/...

Ahh afternoon tea time on Friday 🫖☕️ Good to remember that the entire annual £2.5bn Defra farming budget represents only 4.66 days of NHS spending. So if you had started spending it on the NHS instead of farming at midnight on Sunday, it would have just run out.

NEW DEFRA stats just out. Show that in 2023/24 cereal farm incomes fell by 73% On average cereal farms made a £26k loss on their crops, only earning an income due to direct govt subsidy & non-farming activity. Even so, 1/3 of all cereals farms made a loss despite other income.

I suggest that NOWHERE else in the UK faces the intense land use trade off between climate, nature, food security and economy as in the Fens. Really informed article here, worth a read 🤓👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

24 hours ago I booked a one-night stay at a hotel in Manchester on Saturday. I paid upfront, I have made no changes to the booking. I have so far received seven emails about it. SEVEN. Would i like to upgrade, would I like to pre-book some champagne? Chocolate? A mini bar? An alcohol free mini bar?

The average UK house price buys 6.1 metres of motorway.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,136,428!

Hello Zoropsis spinimana! 🫤

Head, shoulders, wings, and toes - heron toes! 📷 #birds

If you know, you know 🫣

Gives us this day, our daily bread 🌾 🍞 An unusual pause in harvest activity today, as the wheat that's left isn't ready. Partly because it was sown so late, because of all the 🌧️ That also means yields are very, very poor 🥺🍽️

I grew up on a small family farm in New Jersey & I have an M.S. in agricultural economics from Purdue. People think 'the heartland' is full of family farms run by unpretentious 'folk' who drive 10 year old pickup trucks, but much of modern farming is controlled by multinational conglomerates. 1/2

There you go. The people who own that equipment know its value per hour down to the penny. During planting & harvesting season, the 'shadow price' of an hour of modern tractor time might be several thousands of $$.

You might have heard the phrase "No Farmers No Food", now we seem to have No Seed No Food. Is it time the farming industry joined the EU? www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

The climate crisis is essentially a food crisis. Oh, and good morning news.un.org/en/story/202...

Introductions… I’m David, I manage land with farming, forestry and houses in the Berkshire Downs. I’ve got a huge enthusiasm for the countryside, communities, food and conservation. I’m a (mostly off road) cyclist and a maker of pictures; formerly a profession, now more a hobby.

Behold the majestic floof of this canary-shouldered thorn moth and let your Monday be that little bit more bearable. This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council. Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨

I’ve been on here for quite a while now and it has been quiet though enjoyable. Great to see a sudden influx of newbies. Now let’s keep that positivity flowing please 🙏🏻

Looking for a less toxic place than X so trying this out. I am a farmer, butcher, husband and father (not necessarily in that order) in the Highlands of Scotland. We have Highland and Shorthorn Cattle and are #PastureforLife certified. Looking forward to connecting with folk

For those with an interest in nature and climate-friendly farming, RSPB Hope Farm have a series of technical webinars through February and March - details on Twitter: twitter.com/RSPBHopeFarm...

[Old pinned tweet] So. I've gone out on a limb in these dark and troubling times, and tried to look ahead at what things might be like 20yrs from now. Very different, and good for farmers?🤷🏻‍♂️ www.farmersguardian.com/news/4090072...

It's harvest time on the farm, and tentatively dipping my toe into this new blue world...