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@orfc.bsky.social here we go!! 🤩 #ORFC26

Leading dairy supplier admits to throw away milk over the Christmas period due to too much supply 🥛

Less than 1 day to go until #ORFC26!🌾 🤩We are feeling very excited for 2 action-packed days of learning, connection & discussion. If you are still unsure which sessions to attend, check out our 'Top-15' blog post here ➡️https://ow.ly/KYj650XSOMp Stay tuned for live updates & reflections.

My @orfc.bsky.social 2026 watchlist is live. Which sessions are calling to you? Food security, regenerative farming, the future of UK agriculture, it's all there. Read the full post: www.memypigsandi.com/p/my-orfc-20... #ORFC2026 #FarmingCommunity

My ORFC 2026 Watchlist

Twas the Night Before Christmas, and the Barn Light Stayed On

The UK Government’s new Animal Welfare Strategy is a landmark step forward in protecting farmed animals across England, including plans to #EndTheCageAge for laying hens and mother pigs. 🙌🙌

Big news: Defra’s new Animal Welfare Strategy for England signals a move away from farrowing crates for pigs and cages for laying hens, and says it will address CO₂ stunning for pigs at slaughter. Not overnight, but a huge step forward. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/22/a...

Farming Is Not a Spreadsheet

“If Labour pits its housing targets against nature, it will find itself in a battle with the very thing that gives people a deep sense of pride and personal joy - when both feel in short supply.” Wise words from @luketryl.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/f456...

‘If COP is ruled by global corporations with funding from agribusinesses, there is no talk of real, commonsense solutions like decentralising economies’ www.localfutures.org/humanity-is-...

@sustainweb.org has produced this valuable resource to help communities that are threatened by plans for new-build factory farms. www.sustainweb.org/news/nov25-s...

Here we go. ‼️ Defra have finally published the report they have been sitting on for months, the Baroness Batters Farm Profitability Review. #nofarmersnofood #ukfarming www.gov.uk/government/p...

AgStacker Community Newsletter

I Tried to Be Perfect and It Broke Me

That is not leadership. That is a politician hiding behind a slogan while people are telling him that his policy is pushing families into desperation. When farmers start talking about death as tax planning, the debate is no longer technical. It is moral. #nofarmersnofood

A fifth-generation farmer explains that he has only been able to survive by selling organic milk and diversifying into renewable energy. Against all the odds he wants to keep British land producing food for British people. #nofarmersnofood #foodsecurity

🐑 Our Grazing Livestock report has sparked six months of lively discussion since its launch. One of the report's authors and SFT's Senior Research Manager, Robert Barbour, reflects on the debates it's inspired, while reminding us why grazing livestock remain a key part of our vision for the future.

DEFRA’s £500m Landscape Recovery pledge sounds big, but it’s just £25m/year for 20 years with only 10 projects supported. That’s nowhere near enough. Real nature recovery needs real investment, not headline numbers. #Farming #NatureRecovery #ELM #FoodSecurity

Farming’s Final Stand: The Tax Change That Could End the Family Farm

The Budget Day Uprising

Welcome to December

When Meat Giants Call Themselves Climate Champions

There’s honestly nothing quite like the sound of a happy pig grunting away. If you ever need a reminder that farming is about more than just food, watch this - it’s about connection, care, and a little bit of everyday magic. #saddlebackpigs #pigfarming

What stands out is how these pilots broke down barriers: connecting small and organic farms with low-income households, closing the price gap, and using public food contracts to guarantee demand. This work challenges the idea that organic food is just for the privileged.

What Really Happened When We Tried to Save Our Farm

I’d do this… www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Rewilding will not feed Britain. I write about the human cost when land is taken out of food production and why I think the real answer lies in agroecology and farmer led nature recovery on working farms. Read and share your thoughts here www.memypigsandi.com/p/rewilding-...

“What’s happening in Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said @rajpatel.org #COP30

Rewilding Will Not Feed Britain. Here Is What Might

“And I’d suggest you make a judgement: either farmers are all crazy, or else something has gone catastrophically wrong with the relationship between British politics and farmers.” unherd.com/2025/11/coul...

AgStacker Community Newsletter

Our food system is contributing to the climate crisis - but it's also increasingly vulnerable to it. Eloi Jose Wermann is just one of many farmers on the frontline. We're sharing his story & discussing potential solutions at #COP30 this week. Find out more: buff.ly/jgAbutE

As Jane Goodall famously said… “How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”

Cranswick has a long history of animal mistreatment, & despite the headlines, nothing ever seems to change. I would love to be proven wrong, but until we see real transparency & genuine progress, I remain deeply skeptical.

From Belém to the Farm Gate COP30’s Impact on Food, Forests, and Livestock

Cranswick to invest £40m to raise #animalwelfare standards across its pig farming operations

More than 12,000 people have sent letters to MPs as part of the NFU’s #StopTheFamilyFarmTax campaign against proposed #InheritanceTax changes

CO2 slaughter causes pain, fear & respiratory distress. Pigs will panic, fight for breath & eventually suffocate. Calls to phase out this cruel method must be followed.

“When nature-friendly farmers join big supply chains, sustainability incentives can push them back to intensive production,” says NFFN farmer Debbie Wilkins. A memo warns this pressure risks food security, welfare, and farming that supports health and the environment. 👉https://tinyurl.com/bd3dnc9a

“Let's start a farming food revolution right here, right now. It can never happen until the public get behind the farming industry and start to ask questions on our governments & on our supermarkets.” Gareth Wyn Jones The fight for real food starts with us. youtu.be/UdhPm7APkZQ?...

I miss this face 🐮 I can’t eat a banana anymore without thinking of him 😂

The point that keeps getting missed is that the cheap meat and food we’re producing is incredibly expensive. We’re not paying for it at the supermarket, but through soil degradation and our own health.

Resilience After Loss

Welcome to November

The Final Stand - Part 4

Who Really Owns the Countryside

At The Edge

Guest Feature: That Stubborn Bird