Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻
@tom-clarke.bsky.social
Accidental farmer | conservationist | Chair AHDB Cereals | NFU Sugar | NetZero | @ElyNFFarming #FederalUK
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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...
Here is the latest episode:
open.spotify.com/episode/2PMT...
Farm inheritance tax impact
Agonomics with David Eudall · Episode
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January 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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...
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
👇😬
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🏛️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/...
x.com
x.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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/...
🏛️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.
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.
November 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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.
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.
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.
November 15, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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.
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...
Really informed article here, worth a read 🤓👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
The secret to sustainable farming in the Fens? It’s in the water
Feeding the nation while cutting carbon emissions is a challenge, but growers in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia are engineering a solution in the peaty soil
www.thetimes.com
October 16, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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...
Really informed article here, worth a read 🤓👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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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?
September 17, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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?
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The average UK house price buys 6.1 metres of motorway.
September 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
The average UK house price buys 6.1 metres of motorway.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,136,428!
September 17, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,136,428!
Hello Zoropsis spinimana! 🫤
September 13, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Hello Zoropsis spinimana! 🫤
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September 13, 2024 at 4:16 PM
If you know, you know 🫣
August 14, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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 🥺🍽️
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 🥺🍽️
August 14, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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 🥺🍽️
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 🥺🍽️
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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
August 13, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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
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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 $$.
August 13, 2024 at 5:00 PM
There you go. The people who own that equipment know its value per hour down to the penny. During planting & harvesting season, the 'shadow price' of an hour of modern tractor time might be several thousands of $$.
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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...
Brexit delays to seed imports could hit crop production, say growers
Tomato and pepper growers call for UK to strike deal with EU to avoid disruption and duplicate testing
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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...
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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.
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.
August 13, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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.
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.
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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 ✨🦋✨
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 ✨🦋✨
August 12, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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 ✨🦋✨
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 ✨🦋✨
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Reposted by Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻
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 🙏🏻
a dog is standing on its hind legs in front of a fence and a sign that says yippee .
ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in front of a fence and a sign that says yippee .
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August 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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 🙏🏻
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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
August 12, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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
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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...
February 12, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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...
A look into the future of UK agriculture
It is March 20, 2040 exactly 20 years to the day since the Coronavirus pandemic forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson (remember him?) to acknowledge the Brexit transition period would have to be extende...
www.farmersguardian.com
August 12, 2024 at 10:47 AM
[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...
August 12, 2024 at 9:37 AM
It's harvest time on the farm, and tentatively dipping my toe into this new blue world...