Devon born, Warwickshire cc tenant farmer, milk 85 pedigree cows in the beautiful north Cotswolds countryside! Milk vending machine on farm
@northcotswoldsdairy
Tb, milk price, being a tenant, sfi, unavailable grants, the weather, other farmers who seem to be doing very well thank you very much!! No particular order๐ค
Please listen to the video if you have time. Iโm interested to know what causes you the biggest stress and causes you the mental strain. My idea being, if we share and someone reads it thatโs struggling it might just help. I think we all struggle with similar things.
New vending machine up and running at the farmerโs dog pub! No better excuse to go to the pub to get some milk!?๐๐ฅ๐ป
#cowjuice
@JeremyClarkson
Lost 60 head to tb in the last 2 years had to have two heifers due to calve shot on farm! Never would I have let any of them be chased around like that!!
Whoโd be a dairy farmer in winter!! Punctures galore! Slurry pits half full with rain water! A finger nail about to drop off! And a shit milk price!! A brand new muller milk tanker arrived in the yard the other night! ๐ค
Filling in a carbon audit for a milk buyer who isnโt paying a price that covers the cost of production! Who endlessly likes to talk of sustainability!! Could drive you to booking a dispersal sale!! Been tb restricted complicates things further!๐
Itโs all in the pit! A bumper crop while using old kit takes a bit of patience!! Broke a tractor, gave up rowing up for the sake of the poor jf! Big thanks to Kaleb off the tele for lending a tractor for 3 days!! Tempted to let contractors do 1st cut!? How much are people paying
While Mรผller direct milk price has been below the average cost of production for over a year!!๐ฌ itโs not the farmers fault for non investment! Itโs muller and the supermarkets!!๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Looking at Oxford posts Iโm just up the road but donโt have time to be involved, how does everyone else have the time?? This year particularly?! Weโre working all hours with no return just borrowing more money to survive? Hope that got put across somewhere in all the hype!!๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ฌ
Rightly or wrongly weโre taking on more debt to try and survive! A group of pedigree Ayrshires adding some colour to the Cotswolds hills! Moved on a license as shut up by tb! What does everyone think? See meadow dropped milk price again!๐ฌ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ค๐๐ฅ
Our direct sales are the only thing keeping our small dairy farm in business! Lucky to farm in an affluent area with exciting opportunities surrounding us! Personally feel the dairy industry is in a mess and has been for awhile!๐
I suppose living and working in a spot like this will take a fair bit of stress out of life!! Must be thankful for what we have! Putting up fences for the cows tomorrow. ๐๐ป
Iโm going to give up farming because itโs shit!! Sorry but the returns donโt add up!! I have an issue with been shut up with tb!! Any suggestions!?
Odd week! Actually had given up! Emailed the milk buyer told them so! Sold a tractor to pay bills for much less than I thought it was worth!! Itโs covered my main concern!? Realised people would love to be in my position! Looked on x to see farmers arguing!๐
@737pilotpaul
@BigJetTVLIVE
It has made millions of people without a clue!! Appreciate the skill of pilots!! Jerry is a peoples man chill out?๐๐ itโs great footage in challenging conditions?!๐คทโโ๏ธ๐๐ป๐๐ป
Remember when a go fund me thing happened? Emma donated most to
@RABIcharity
but as
@becciexyahoo
said โit is for you!!โ So
@Stow_Ag
have wildlife proofed our main young stock building! Clarksonโs farm doing things!!๐ฌ๐๐ป
Seriously question how we carry on here as a tenant dairy farm? Sfi must look amazing to a owner occupied arable farm with no livestock to feed? Meanwhile Iโve not the time or patience for it but have to because feeding cows to produce milk with rent to pay is unprofitable! 5%๐
A red Christina heifer calf! Bought her grand dam with some money left to me by my great uncle Peter! Looks a cracking calf! ( sire is Amaretto red)๐ฅฐ
@ChrisGPackham
@churchofengland
Itโs pretty green and pleasant!? But itโs not very profitable keeping it that way to feed you? So yeah letโs let brambles blackthorn and ragwort take over!๐คทโโ๏ธ
1 reactor is now 11 on severe interpretation! Likelihood of visible lesions is now a big worry with gamma testing again!! A couple heavily pregnant likely to be shot on farm! Wonder why weโre putting ourselves through all this again!! While milk price isnโt covering cop!๐ค๐คฌ๐
A public crowdfunding project started by Clarksonโs Farm viewer Rebecca Poole has raised more than ยฃ30,000 for dairy farmers Emma and Pete Ledbury, after the show highlighted their devastating losses as a result of bovine TB
Ben is from an Uber historically rich lorded family!! I donโt know why he doesnโt understand the plight of grass roots farmers!?๐ค๐ง๐คทโโ๏ธ
Did you know that EU farmers receive โฌ55 billion in taxpayer-funded handouts every year? Farming subsidies are by far the largest expenditure item of the EU. Adherence to basic environmental standards really doesnโt seem much to ask in return.
@elliegoulding
As a farmer producing โAgri foodsโ Iโm not currently been paid the cost of production to produce the โagri foodโ!! How do you want me to pay??!
X is odd to me nowadays! Everyone needing to give their opinion on stuff?! Like UTubers saying anyhoo! Just gets annoying!๐ฌ I put the farm sign up and checked some dry cows๐
Still chopping! Grass must go mad the year after a drought!? Broke a tractor! 30year old forager is probably to old for this!!๐ฌ been lent a tractor from a neighbour has black rims for some reason!!๐คทโโ๏ธ
Stirring our uncovered lagoon so I can go spreading with the old splash plate! Canโt afford to change either to be compliant with incoming new rules!! What the future holds who knows!๐คทโโ๏ธ
We must see a duty of care within the food supply chain to farmers and producers if we are to maintain production and food security in this country.
#FairTrade
#Fairbruary
@BenGoldsmith
Be a lot of hungry people without it? Not saying itโs right! But a planet with a growing population want cheap (some require free food!)?? Is a famine a crime?
@GeorgeMonbiot
A tenant dairy farm in the north Cotswolds!! Where every millionaire /billionaire wants a house / farm!! Iโm here providing food at a price less than the cost of producing it!! George has no idea what heโs talking about in my opinion but I believe things need to change!!๐คทโโ๏ธ
When will it be realised? As a small tenant farmer it needs realising in months not years!? Costs have got us on our knees! Landlord with limited funds makes you wonder!?
British milk - ยฃ1.06 a litre
Water - ยฃ1.20 a litre
Whole chicken - ยฃ3.22
Cup of coffee - ยฃ3.36
Food canโt be sustainably produced for these prices.
Today, a bit of milk delivered to diddly squat first thing, milked, fed around cattle, rode on steam trains, spotted Francis the funny train enthusiast, got Isaac riding his bike finally! Fed around cattle! Beer ๐ป
@Farmer_Tom_UK
Iโm a (44) ex young farmer, been head down trying to make our 15 year fbt work running farm bringing up 3 kids! And itโs so tough at the moment!! Got asked last week to steward the rally dairy stock judging by Enstone Yfc. Iโm so excited and looking forward to it!!๐๐ป
Well thatโs stuffed the get out of dairy, plant wild flowers and bird food and live off the sfi plan! Keep on keeping on surviving a milk price that doesnโt cover the cost of producing it, it is!!๐ฌ
#tb