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Thomas Duffy

2 years

Lets be clear about what happened on last night's #rtept . A man with extremist views that all livestock farming must end was invited on. If you're a farmer you heard this view & it confirmed every right wing conspiracy, every fear you've been fed about what 'environmentalists'

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

I mean Barry Keogan was great but why are so many people overlooking Kerry Condon's masterclass in the 'You're all feckin boring' scene

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@FionaSmall

1 year

How did Barry Keogan not win a Golden Globe for this scene alone in The Banshees of Inisherin

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

I really feel we’d have this Corona virus sorted if we’d just put a farmer who’ve had an outbreak of crypto in charge of the country’s biosecurity You’ve been to Italy or China? Good news you get an exclusive stay in isolation pen with your very own red lamp & bottle of sacrolyte

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

7 months

(Not so) fun fact, Ben's wealth comes in no small part from his ancestor, the "Marquess" of "londonderry". A man so brutal he refused to lower rents or provide famine aid during An Gorta Mór. We don't need lectures on when to provide aid or colonialism from the likes of him.

Ben Goldsmith

@BenGoldsmith

7 months

@SamRamani2 Ireland is consumed by hatred of Israel. Always has been. It’s weird.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

6 months

So given indicators of agri emissions are all down this year (fertiliser ⬇️, milk intake ⬇️ & stock numbers ⬇️) While SUV sales ⬆️ Diesel ⬆️ Coal/oil for electric ⬆️ Flying (massively) ⬆️ It shows how poorly our sector is managing messaging that we're the focus in media

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Richard the only newsperson I heard call it the truth: plunder. Those ads on radio about energy savings and increase in prices due to the invasion of Ukraine are hard to stomach. This is war profiteering nothing less

Richard Chambers

@newschambers

1 year

The biggest profit in its 115 year history. Shell plunders a record $39.9bn profit - boosted by the spike in energy prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

6 months

Given the names of the arrested include non-dubliners, working tradesmen and a range of ages, can we retire the jokes about this all being teens or young men from poorer Dublin areas? This is the far right in action, call it what it is

Men and women aged 19 to 57 appear in court on public order, theft and other charges following...

Possession of weapons, theft, public intoxication, use of abusive language among charges faced

www.irishtimes.com

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

I’ve read some tweets today that annoyed me with people’s attitudes to farmers & the environment, rather than subtweet about them I’m gonna do something pointless but fun : a thread about my favourite movie - John B Keane’s The Field, & why the Bull was a true environmentalist 1/

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

8 months

This group can name yourself representative of farmers but as the replies and quote tweets to this make clear, they don't deserve to call yourself that. Like so many others let me say this is not in my name or any other farmer I know. I'm not surprised though

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

I'll be on @ClaireByrneLive with @boucherhayes in a few minutes to discuss farmers disappointment with how theyve been characterised & how this is creating grounds for misinformation that will undermine climate action

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

9 months

I'm not doing whataboutery on agri nutrients to water but for non-farming tweeps, if a farmer was found to have an overflow-pipe into a bay from their slurry tank they would immediately lose a massive chunk of their income & be given no choice but to block it. Not so for councils

Sabrina Joyce-Kemper SJK

@kemper_sabrina

9 months

Portmarnock south pumping station has been discharging raw sewage into Baldoyle Bay SAC/ SPA since probably 1am when electricity went out this morning. Fingal engineers working to get sucker truck to site but we should be considering solar power and storage at all PS sites.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

10 months

Going to be very hard for some to spin this against agriculture. When the farmers are the ones making the necessary changes, improving their practices and STILL producing more...but transport who are failing (& being failed by political leadership) Well done today to the farmers!

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

I realized this year marks the point that for 50% of all the summers I’ve farmed in partnership our farm has experienced drought. We’ve now entered our second this year. That’s the reality of climate change we’re leaving for the next generation of farmers

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Cow methane = bad Bison methane = good Couldn't make this stuff up from the Rewilding crowd

New Scientist

@newscientist

2 years

Wild bison released in UK for first time as part of rewilding efforts

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Woke up this morning to a legal threat for calling out @ecofactecology 's unsubstantiated claims of destruction of habitat by an easily identifiable dairy farmer to build a 'farm access road' @DarraghScott has done the work you'd expect an enviro professional to be capable of &

Darragh Scott

@DarraghScott

1 year

So quick to blame the dairy sector. It's actually for the development of an eirgrid interconnector. Shameful stuff

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

7 months

Amazing to hear on @RTERadio1 when its pollution by the state by raw sewage 'we need to be aware infrastructure takes time' & 'it cant be done overnight' and any improvement is good? Maybe the farmers should try those lines next? Just say you have a plan for 2025 & you'll be set?

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

10 months

Sell Irish dairy cheap: 'no you're undercutting local farmers, that's evil' Sell it as a premium: 'no it's too expensive, pure greed, that's evil' No win scenario

Tara Connolly

@TaraConnollyEU

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Irish dairy, feeding the world at double the price of its competitors.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

If there’s anything more frustrating in farming I’ve never heard of it

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Hope my red clover doesn't know the pressure or expectation on it or that it's essentially part of a war effort. Year 4 of zero N in this field, just got it's 2500gal of LESS slurry to help it along #Irishfarming #agcredible

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Today has been a big day but a successful one!

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

I see people who couldn't differentiate between a 600kg cow, her 40kg calf or a 1 tonne bull are currently flat out lecturing everyone about what the word "cull" actually means...

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

5 years

So its more formally announced. Looking forward to my 2 year term starting from May of this great organisation @MacranaFeirme with a great new team. We've always been a strong voice for young farmers, progressive agriculture & rural youth. I'll do my best to strengthen that voice

Odile

@OdileEvans

5 years

Congratulations to the new team of @MacranaFeirme leaders. A well fought election. Good luck to @TaeSavesLives and the gang for the next two years

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 month

As a non-drinker I've no idea why we're tying later opening to alcoholism. Lots of countries have later opening hours than we do and a far far healthier drink culture than our clearly dysfunctional relationships. A lot of correlation not causation going on here #RTEUpfront

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

As someone who has 1. Multispecies, 2. Up to date (& regularly USED) nutrient management plan, 3. Annual native tree planting, 4. Legume crops (red clover silage), can I just say anyone proposing these as a solution this year to high fertiliser prices is agriculturally illiterate

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Delighted to be back fighting for young farmers again, but in a different way, at EU level, looking forward to working with all the Presidential team and staff in CEJA. Especially at a time of great change for EU agriculture

CEJA Young Farmers

@_CEJA_

3 years

CEJA delegates elected this afternoon the organisation’s new Board for the period 2021-2023 🗳️ Diana Lenzi (ANGA) is CEJA’s new President. Adam Nowak (ZMW), Doris Letina (ZSPM), Thomas Duffy (Macra na Feirme) and Anne-Catherine Dalcq (FJA) were elected Vice-Presidents. #elections

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

A good reason I'll be including holly in all my new hedgerow planting and where I'm regenerating them through coppicing

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

10 months

Seriously disappointed to hear @SocDems leader @HollyCairnsTD describe it as "routine" for calves to be abused & her claims about farmers who dont use dual purpose. Last night sickened me but as someone who ensures all calves are cared for despite their breeds its totally false

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

So people may not be aware the soft Cavan accent on the phone of those ringing @AgriNetFarm for the last 24 years has been my mam. She’s a trailblazer, remote worker before it was cool, always active in the community. She taught us more than anything to get involved & make change

Agriland

@AgrilandIreland

3 years

Kathleen recalls busy 24 years as she retires, and looks forward to family and show time #AgriNet

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

8 months

751acres could have meant 5-7 young farmers getting a start. Instead it's this

Irish Farmers Journal

@farmersjournal

8 months

Coolmore has added another large tract of Golden Vale land to its burgeoning land portfolio by purchasing Barne Estate, which had a guide price of €13.5m.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Hey Siri show me evidence of why it makes neither financial nor welfare sense to cut the hell out of hedges every spring? Thankfully this roadside hedge is back 5m from the road so managed by me and it only top it for thickening

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 month

Not a question of if, but how many farmers this spring will break and sell up. Worrying times with so few being able to enter the sector.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

After doing another year parking cars at a local event it really gives you an insight on two things: One cars have gotten way too big, the average is now a big jeep and some of the behemoths were unreal! Spacial awareness & ability to drive these yoke has not kept up with growth

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

It’s been the honour of a lifetime to represent such a progressive & hard working group of people as in @MacranaFeirme . I’m proud of all we achieved throughout a slightly crazy 2 years. I’m also so proud one of my last acts was to announce this initiative

Macra and Teagasc launch PhD into the economic return of young farmers

Outgoing Macra president Thomas Duffy has said the PhD will take a look at an area in farming which is “unfortunately overlooked” - young farmers and their economic return.

www.farmersjournal.ie

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

I was yesterday years old when I realised it’s actually cheaper to take a Credit Union loan to buy a decent phone unlocked then go with a sim only deal then it was to take the offers to upgrade or go with a contract to buy a discounted phone. Between €150-400 cheaper in fact

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

The fact that prominent Rewilders now want to introduce (yet oddly call it reintroduction) beavers into Ireland, who were never native, shows that it's not really about the ecology. It's about making rural Ireland into a glorified theme park...

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

@RTE_PrimeTime doing a wonderful job of destroying all the work of climate activists who have been genuine in their desire to work with farmers to find climate solutions by bringing on an extremist opinion writer who publicly says he wants to end farming #rtept

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

This is what @rtenews should have reported France:Environment Minister Christophe Bechu said July's rainfall represented "just 12 percent of what's needed". France is the fourth-largest exporter of wheat and among the top five exporters of maize globally

Driest July on record sparks fears of European crop shortages

As much of Europe bakes in a third heatwave since June, fears are growing that extreme drought driven by climate change in the continent's breadbasket nations will dent stable crop yields and deepen…

www.france24.com

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 months

@simongerman600 Hi Simon. A fan of your stuff including Ireland in British Isles is absolutely wrong and even insulting in 2024. There's a number of alternative more modern titles but 'British Isles' is no longer used by governments of either islands.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

So @rte has an entire community of environmental experts, activists and scientists and chooses to go to a journalist and opinion writer with a book to sell from the UK to talk about our climate action. Hard to justify that without assuming bias #rtept

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Ah sure why not tell ye a little about the farm here and what we’re doing to reduce our impact seeing as its #WorldMilkDay #proudtofarm

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

6 months

Absolutely massive! Nearly no sector is on track to reach 2030 targets, let alone reaching their 2030 targets in any space by 2022! Now it's time to make a very big deal out of this nearly unique achievement or we're at nothing

The Fertilizer Association of Ireland

@Fertassoc

6 months

National Fertiliser Usage Stats - DAFM - Total fert sales fallen by 18% to 1,135,860t. (33% reduction since 2021) - N sales -18% to 280,569t. (-30% since 2021) Climate Action Plan - sales to 300,000 tonnes to 2030 relative to 2018 with an interim target of 330,000 tonnes by 2025

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

The best form of 'carbon storage' is in oil and gas not dug up and burnt. Everything else is a poor second

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 months

Half filled the jeep with diesel: €60! Half! In other news a close friend with 2 EVs spent just €20 for the month! A whole month of driving including to work daily. But yea EVs are a con because the folks making money off selling diesel/petrol cars says so...

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

5 months

Monbiot is not a serious person or commentator. Big wool like.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

8 months

The reduction of derogation & destruction of many smaller dairy farms, pricing out of our tillage & beef farmers from land will ultimately impoverish the whole of agriculture & is a win for no one. Idiotic to either celebrate it or assume it'll improve water. Its a policy failure

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

11 months

My last airport hot chocolate for a while. Finishing my role as vice-president of @_CEJA_ this week, makes the end of my 12 years of policy involvement.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

8 months

Looking forward to a new challenge with the team at Agriland! This is the first of my articles, as expected I'll be focusing mostly on environmental and climate issues related to agriculture, with the odd EU orientated piece!

Agriland

@AgrilandIreland

8 months

Giving transport a better score than agriculture on emissions is absurd #opinion

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Remember folks qualifications matter...except if they're in agricultural science then sure anyone can comment... Remember folks personal attacks are wrong...unless they're against farm representatives then they're fair game... #Irony

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 month

Its incredible that at a time when weather is hammering farms (likely made worse by climate change) many climate activists are using it to say 'serves you right'. Building bridges yea? This is why so much of the climate movement is self destructive, the pompous self righteousness

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Its a cold windy day in December. So what better day to do some filming! I’m gonna be walking my whole farm & filming the management of our hedgerows for their #ecological & functional value on an average everyday commercial conventional dairy farm #farmecology #agcredible #Irish

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

If there’s one small thing I hope we don’t lose as a result of Coronavirus post Covid it’s webinars instead of conferences. The fact that I can go back and play them as I’m going about other work like a podcast is great

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Local papers often do phenomenal work that put some national papers to shame. This is one such example: great explainer of “induced demand” a very important idea to understand if we continue to believe more roads = less traffic

City bypass might increase, not lessen, traffic congestion in Galway

The long, and often controversial, saga of a bypass for Galway may be brought to a close when An Bord Pleanála decides the fate of the Galway City Ring Road in April.

www.advertiser.ie

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

"Scattered showers" has a greater lie ever been told, I tweet from a shed I'm trapped in by yet another torrential downpour

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

6 months

When I see the racism thats rising here I often think of my grandfather & grandmother. He told me what London was like for him as a young man, how they were treated (or more rightly ignored except to be worked), how they lived separately To see racists use OUR flag sickens me

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@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Yes its an overused meme, yes we have our issues in ag, but in a week when literally 100s of farmers went to Johnstown Castle & Shinagh to learn about climate action & reducing GHGs only to see online/media dominated by mischaracterisation, is it any wonder many are disengaging?

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Some kick in the teeth to hear claims of ‘dairy farmers always digging out hedgerows” on @the2johnnies just now. Here’s some hedgerows I’ve apparently ‘dug out’. As for having one badger, try 3 setts & 3 pairs of breeding buzzards. Sad to see types of farmers go after each other

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Incredible session at @_CEJA_ . Heartbreaking to hear of the impact, orchards failing, crops down by 50%, wells running dry. Entire room agrees this is just the start for us as young farmers due to climate change. Deep frustration though only solutions offered is 'produce less'

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@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Delighted to have @newschambers on the farm to talk about young farmers views on the 25% target. Suppose I can't blame him for Rebecca Vardy knocking us off the top of the news...

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@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Today we remember the single best bit of marketing for any county, better than your "Wild Atlantic Ways" or your "Ancient Easts", sadly too short lived (and even worse never adopted as our official slogan!) #CavanDay

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

8 months

Good to get clarity about An Taisce's policy here. It's not about improving the footprint of dairy. It's not about reducing nutrient loss. Or GHG. It's about getting rid of dairy. For some fictional alternative enterprise. Entitled to their view, good to have it straight

Elaine McGoff

@ElaineMcgoff

8 months

@davidkerr67 I'd like to take you up on that David, thanks. Dairy farmers should be supported to transition out of dairy & should not be hung out to dry after being incentivised to expand. But what they diversify into, & how, & who pays is an critical discussion that still needs to happen

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@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Incredibly important interview between @MichaelEMann & @ellamcsweeney this morning @RTECountryWide . Two clear messages: 1 while all sectors need to reduce carbon emissions the focus cant be taken off prioritising eliminating fossil fuels first, 2 catastrophising achieves nothing

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@TaeSavesLives

6 years

@SarahTaber_bww This is a fantastic thread but I'd add one or two outliers to the point. Ireland, Scotland, Wales and some parts of Scandinavia had a traditional livestock based food culture because it was TOO wet. Too wet for even much cultivation. Again fantastic educational thread

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@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Check your honey, if it says a 'blend of EU & non-EU honey' be aware a big chunk of it might not even be honey at all! Put it back, maybe you'll pay a bit more for only EU or Irish honey, but it'll actually be honey...

Natasha Foote

@NatashaFoote

1 year

There is a “strong suspicion that a large part of the honey imported from non-EU countries and found suspicious of being adulterated remains present and undetected on the EU market” according to a new report - worrying news for EU beekeepers 🐝 🍯

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@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Great talking to @newschambers today, more at 5:30 (yes I always wanted to say that)

Virgin Media News

@VirginMediaNews

2 years

#WATCH The Government is facing a backlash over the agreement made on climate emissions targets after days of intensive talks The plan includes a 25% reduction in emissions for agriculture over the next eight years #VMNews Correspondent @newschambers reports ⤵️

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@TaeSavesLives

3 years

The nervousness many farmers feel right now looking at weather forecasts & lack of rain reminds us that the only thing worse that unfair climate action by the state is no action. We’re the frontline & we’ll suffer long before other sectors. Decarbonisation of sectors is key

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@TaeSavesLives

5 months

So I saw this yesterday, thought I'd run the numbers: 50 mil tonnes divided by 67 mil* implies one meal/week of red meat generates 746kg of CO2eq or 14.35kg/week So is it true? Ignoring red meat is also pork** it'd require eating 629g of beef or 6 quarter pounders in one sitting!

Laura Tobin.

@Lauratobin1

5 months

Did you know If everyone in the UK swapped a meal with red meat for a plant based meal just one day per week, we would cut the UK’s emissions by 50 million tonnes. That's the equivalent of taking 16 million cars off the road. Small changes make a difference

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@TaeSavesLives

1 year

I'm not exactly machinery minded but a rig like this really is something. The tech farmers and contractors work with now really is advanced. Pity the stereotype of us hasn't changed

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@TaeSavesLives

10 months

Well articulated from Jack. When I hear the outright villianisation of dairy, especially derogation dairy, it's ones like Jack I think of. Groups that cheer the loss of derogation one second will mourn the loss of young farmers and small/medium farms. Ignoring it's the same

Aine O'Connell

@AinePOConnell

10 months

@IFAmedia our wicklow rep Jack Keenan telling @McConalogue the impact 220kg would have on his farm, we can't let a flawed proposal kill our young dairy farmers

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@TaeSavesLives

3 years

I once did a whole thread about the good hedge management we apply on the farm. It got less than half the likes of this one. This is a big part of where the negative image of Irish farming is coming from, amplified by Twitter & other social media outlets

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@TaeSavesLives

3 years

So apparently this is a hot take: sneering at people who will lose their livelihoods as a result of climate action is NOT in fact a good way to get buy in for that climate action. Lying about diversification or ‘opportunities’ is also not a good way by the way

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@TaeSavesLives

10 months

Likely the most important document in Irish agriculture for the coming decade. Incredible research by world leading agricultural GHG researchers.

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

5 years

When one of the leading climate scientist repeatedly points to fossil fuels as the main factor in climate change way over the impact of livestock, we have some serious questions to ask of those pushing the anti-farming narrative

Prof Michael E. Mann

@MichaelEMann

6 years

In total agreement. Personal choices are part of the solution. I don’t eat meat. But I won’t force that on other people, nor will I support the falsehood that it’s factors other than burning of fossil fuels for energy & transport that are primarily responsible for warming planet.

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@TaeSavesLives

2 years

I really appreciated the opportunity to write this on the damage agri-misinformation attacking farmers & envi-misinformation aimed at farmers can do to achieving climate action. We need more voices for climate action that actually understand rural/farmers

Thomas Duffy: When agents of misinformation sow distrust in farming community, it reaps real danger

If we want to keep hard-pressed food producers onside in the fight to save the planet, we need to check our own facts, address legitimate concerns, and maintain balanced media coverage of the issues

www.businesspost.ie

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

11 months

Extremely hard to stomach listening to Minister McGrath cheering on a foreign retailer @Tesco cutting prices and claiming it's because of falling "input costs" without ever mentioning that actually means screwing primary producers!

Field vegetable production to fall 7% this year – Teagasc

A market response will be required to ensure the viability of an industry that puts local, nutritious, fresh, top-quality produce on the supermarket shelf, Teagasc has warned.

www.farmersjournal.ie

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

Fecking peer pressure from on here, trying to keep up with the cool kids and their multiple species

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Over the years I've argued for the necessity of rural/ag climate action, and against the stereotyping of farmers which drives people away from that. Delighted this is my first print article with @farmersjournal

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@TaeSavesLives

3 months

If the French farmers protests achieve the end for the Mercosur trade deal then they'll have achieved more for the environment and climate than the entire Farm-to-Fork did.

Euractiv Agri & Food

@eaAgriFood

3 months

Cars v cows: German automakers call to split EU-Mercosur deal to bypass French ‘non’

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

A bit late for the #FarmlandBiodiversity celebration but no harm to contribute anyway. All taken on my dairy farm

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

11 months

A week of forecast rain. Nearly none fell. Ground rapidly turning brown and protein plummeting. Even the clover struggling. Don't mind telling anyone our farm is well and truly in drought

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

5 months

Little bit of news from me this evening: delighted to have an opinion piece published in @thejournal_ie . We keep saying in farming we need to broaden the conversation beyond our own, its been an aim of mine lately. Thanks to @SineadOCarroll & @LauraByrneStory for the opportunity

TheJournal.ie

@thejournal_ie

5 months

Farmer: We are not the biggest offenders when it comes to climate change, but we're the ones taking all the heat...

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

11 months

There's a lad on TikTok live streaming the work he and his team are doing handweeding crops. This is both brilliant in that it shows the hard work involved in growing veg to people who never would see it...but also awful cos it shows how grim & sore that work clearly is

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

You want to know what real action on water quality looks like? It’s not notions of silly land use changes that can’t be maintained economically. It’s €10k I spent on roadways this year to direct runoff away from any drains/shores. It’s reseeding with multi species & clover to

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Phenomenal performance by Macra na Feirme President John Keane. Clear and informed with real facts. He represents the concerns of so many farmers (not just young ones). Proud to be a @MacranaFeirme member

Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

John Keane @MacranaFeirme President will be coming up on @TheHardShoulder on @NewstalkFM . Important young farmer voices are heard in this discussion, we'll be the ones most affected by climate change and emissions targets!

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

6 years

I wonder if that Fertiliser we were advised to put out in February has reached Australia yet...

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Fascinating to listen to actual experts in livestock. Maybe not as popular as a book by a certain well known anti-farmer author with zero agricultural scientific qualifications but I'd bet my hat this would actually stand up to scrutiny (as it's based on peer reviewed work!)

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

20% increase in emissions, 3rd highest rising emissions in the EU A reminder that while we dont know June livestock numbers, total calvings were up only 0.0019%, milk intake down 0.7%, fert purchases down, feed down. But yea we're all in this together...

Ireland can still meet emissions targets, says Varadkar, as new research shows rise in greenhouse...

Bloc’s emissions on the rise in first quarter of 2022 compared to a year earlier

www.irishtimes.com

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

Can’t get much more #Cavan than eating a native “Cavan sugarcane” apple from your Cavan orchard. Even the sky is celebrating #CavanDay with blue and white

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

I believe this what the kids call “getting owned” with facts. A real world farmer with real world measurements vs irrelevant world averages using flawed metrologies (without going into the difference between green and blue water)

Aidan McCarthy

@AidanAidanmc

4 years

@PaulGogarty @conormulv @Revolution_IRL @rte 6.5 litres of water to produce a litre of milk in this country. We’ve been measuring it since 2012. 5 meters fitted on the farm from the well, to where each litre hot or cold is used from drinking, washing, cooling, cleaning etc. Every litre is measured and it’s 6.5litres

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Overwhelming response from the farming/ag community on here. This is illegal & unacceptable, end of.

Oonagh Duggan

@NatureNymph

1 year

Disgraceful. @agriculture_ie @McConalogue @pippa_hackett @martinheydonfg .

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

A rule I live by: never trust anyone talking about agriculture that doesn't accept there are tradeoffs No fertiliser:lower yields:higher land use Higher yield:higher pollution risks:reduce prices All those have qualifiers but romanticising one over the other isn't useful

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Another day of attacks on farmers because we dare to not solely feed Irish people but help bring money into Ireland & especially rural Ireland. Never mind that the farming these people would demand we switch to is losing farmers at an incredible rate because its not profitable

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

11 months

Being shocked there's no bugs on your windscreen while driving down a massive strip of tarmac which ploughed through and filled in wetland is soooooo close to the point it's sad... No doubt it'll still be blamed on farming

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

You mightn't know it but I do try to stay out of stupid food culture war rubbish... But when you see prominent environmentalists promoting a certain oat drink company prosecuted for green washing & anti small enterprise lawsuits to bait farmers tis hard not to call that hypocrisy

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Look here’s a simple thing: if you want to anger farmers just talk about being ‘imaginative’ or ‘diversification’. I’m sorry but at this stage that is a nonsense answer for the very real challenges. Farmers are practical people & non-practical hand wavy solutions doesnt cut it

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

4 years

Very dangerous stuff on going AGAINST the Food Safety Authority advice that children under five should not have these “alternatives”

Eleanor

@EleanorSfarmerE

4 years

Ireland AM have a gardener on giving NUTRITIONAL advice. You could not make it up. Recommending introducing alternative milk .. The incorrect nutritional advice in this is staggering 😳

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Ok this is pretty cool, the first cow (nee heifer) to have been milked without a human hand doing the work!

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

3 years

Cows extremely content on the multi species. Extremely hard to gauge multi species performance by eye. But this area of this field when in perennial ryegrass at 1500 would have not have kept them as long. Watching for bloat like a hawk though as it was full of clover going in

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

1 year

Incredible hearing on @PatKennyNT show that milk price is dropping because commodity price of wheat, feed & oil is down. Total misunderstanding of farming. Milk produced today is fed with meal purchased at high prices, grass fertilized with expensive fert (high gas price)

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Did the...did the official Earth Day Twitter account just use misinformation claiming that 80% of GHGs are associated with livestock. That's too basic a fact to unwittingly make a mistake on. This is why farmers have no faith in so many climate action groups

EARTHDAY.ORG

@EarthDay

2 years

You can fight climate change with diet change.🥊 Did you know that 80 % of green house gasses are associated with livestock production? Learn more about plant based diets and the connection between our food systems and #ClimateChange 🌱 here: @VegFund

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Thomas Duffy

@TaeSavesLives

2 years

Some people with no agricultural science knowledge really hate when someone with far greater knowledge like FAO's Chief Scientist says anything that contradicts message of "Irish ag bad" (so much for "respect scientists" or maybe it's only certain scientists that deserve respect)

FAO Chief Scientist

@FAOScienceChief

2 years

I would like to salute Ireland for its ambition to develop an “innovative, competitive and resilient agri-food sector” that is driven by science, technology and talent, encapsulated in its 10-year strategy for its #agrifood sector, namely ‘Food Vision 2030'.

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