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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

The site of a Bronze Age 🛖roundhouse is much more fertile than the surrounding area. How and why is that?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Welcome to the river Hun in Holme Next the Sea, Norfolk. This is a SSSI, but three sewage works discharging into it make it more of a SSSHIT 💩 If a farmer did this they would be fined heavily. Strange old world 🌎

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

10 days

The most defined ‘Oak before Ash’ this year 🌳

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Can anyone tell me why this doesn’t qualify as a conspiracy theory? #beef #lamb #grassland

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

When I was 2, these were the scenes on the farm ☺️

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Atmospheric methane over land. 25% of the worlds cows are in Brazil 9% of the worlds cows are in China China has the highest methane emissions of anywhere in the world. #methane #climate #cows #beef #ruminants #ClimateCrisis #carbon #agriculture #environment #animals

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

@ClimateHuman Throwing soup that’s made using fossil fuels onto a painting created without using fossil fuels, whilst wearing art & clothing made with fossil fuels is only highlighting the fact that they are still using oil 🛢 They could be wearing wool & smear some peat over the painting 🐑

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Building company cuts down trees on the banks of the river Yare in nesting season 🤦

Investigation launched as neighbours shocked by drastic river tree felling

South Norfolk Council is investigating river tree felling near land where outline planning permission is in place for 670 homes in Trowse, near…

www.edp24.co.uk

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 years

Straight out of 1991. No depreciation around here 😝

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

9 months

Boeing 737 ~ 1,000 gallons of fuel per hour 🛩️ Class 8900 - 20 gallons of fuel per hour 🚜

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Dear @BBC After listening to Radio 1’s future dance last night it left me wondering what your policy on air travel is In between every song the DJ encouraged you to book a flight to Ibiza So you have banned meat on a Monday in your canteens but still promote air travel?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

@1GarethWynJones Swapping dairy milk for oat milk would take up 1,140,077 arable hectares which is larger than the area dairy currently occupies. It would also produce 1,530,000 tonnes of oat pulp which is fed to livestock. You haven’t though this through have you guys 🤔

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

@MatthewStadlen This is not true Matthew & a very simplistic argument. Bi-products from products such as tofu, oat milk & sugar are consumed by ruminants & monogastrics. Without them consuming waste products the carbon footprint of the original product would be higher

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Oak before ash, we’re in for a splash

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

4 months

Supporting Cambodian rice farmers, 6,200 miles away 🍚 🤦 #methane

Chris Packham

@ChrisGPackham

4 months

The real taste of conservation ! I’m thrilled to introduce you to @ibis_rice , a new organic rice brand that is helping to protect critically endangered species from extinction through wildlife-friendly farming . Learn more at #AD

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

It’s so odd that flying literally has no stigma. People literally get more gyp for eating beef than flying 🤔 🐂 🛫

Irish Farmers Journal

@farmersjournal

3 months

“Dublin airport is looking to expand by 25%, whereas Irish farmers are being asked to reduce emissions by 25%,” Cork Central IFA chair said.

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Climate change has caused this flood on a greenfield housing development 🙈

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

5 months

Something for you to ponder while you eat your Sunday chicken @AdeAdepitan The highest concentration of cattle in UK is on the Orkney Isles The lowest concentration of cattle in the UK is in London #methane

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

5 months

@AdeAdepitan @Channel4 @zandlandfilms Sadly the show doesn’t look well researched Ade 🤦

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

Such an odd and harmful myth Hannah This only works if you are in a country that’s inefficient at food production 🍆 Promoting avocados that are grown where the rainforest used to be and sprayed with Fipronil (a neonicotinoid) is appalling behaviour 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

3 months

Buying local food to reduce your impact on the environment is “a really big myth”, says @_HannahRitchie . The Environmental data scientist tells @krishgm why sustainable food choices are complicated and buying local isn’t always the climate-friendly way.

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

The moment you realise that you have tramlined about four acres…😡🤦 #takeyourpick

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

The loss of mixed farms has also got to be one of the biggest factors. In the era pre 1980 almost all lowland farms had livestock. Birds need bugs. Bugs need muck 🐂🐖🐏🐓

Jake Fiennes

@jake_fiennes

1 year

Intensive farming is biggest cause of bird decline in Europe, study say But could agriculture also be a solution to reversing this?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Anyone found the best way to break it to the sheep that their turnips are now spoken for? 🐑🍠🍠🐏

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Angus, you’ve got the job!! 🐂 🧑‍🌾

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

8 months

I wish to meet the person that invented this plug 🤬

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

9 months

First time I’ve witnessed a carbon offsetting/biodiversity net gain scheme 9 ~ 30 tonne 360 diggers & 5 dumpers digging up 400 year old grazing marshes ⛽️🐂⛽️🐂⛽️ 🤦

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 years

On the Jeremy Vine show - so much talk of eating less meat. No mention of reducing car usage or aviation miles. What is with this agenda? @theJeremyVine @BBCNews #cop26 #ClimateEmergency

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

11 months

@ProfMarkMaslin Considering the most common replacement for beef/meat is soya, and a fair proportion of the soy eaten in the UK comes from South America while we are 86% self sufficient in beef, this is completely untrue Mark 🤦

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

18 days

While cereals & pulses are struggling this year, the grass keeps on growing. The beef based diet continually looks to be the most reliable option with the changing climate 🐂

𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐫 🇺🇦

@DavidButler34

19 days

Don’t think we’ve ever cut 1st Cut grass silage in April before. 🤔

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

We often hear claims from @GeorgeMonbiot that feeding #cereals to animals is an inefficient use of #land 🤔 But.. 1 Ha of beans produces 210kg protein & 127,000 calories 1 Ha of wheat, fed to pigs produces 950kg of protein & 851,840 calories @BBCFoodProg #food #beans #pork

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Environmentalists have replaced sheep with diggers 🤦🛢

Llŷr Derwydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@LlyrDerwydd

1 year

Dry peat realises carbon, so we remove trees to help keep peatland wet. Sheep (for free) would normally keep trees growth low but the environmentalists think sheep are bad. They rather pay 💰 me to go in with diggers to do it as this is better for the environment than sheep 🤯

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

32 years old, but still a useful tractor. #TW35

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

5 months

No, we have to call this out. Everyone who has spoken to you Ade has been from a family farm. You are speaking on behalf of the meatless lobby and you have spun lie after lie on national Television 📺🐂

Ade Adepitan

@AdeAdepitan

5 months

@1GarethWynJones Thanks for the conversation. We may disagree but at least it’s been civil. I’m standing by my principles, I’ve taken a lot of criticism a lot of it personal which is fine. You have a whole beef lobby behind you on here. I’m just trying to give people solutions. Good night

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Every ingredient is imported for the UK made Oatly oat milk 🥛 🌾 #DontLookUp …

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

You can really see the difference from the combine cab. How have these nutrients lasted 3,500 years?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

9 days

To me this is the right amount of fat 😋🐂

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Got to have a yard tidy every so often

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Bought in straw. Worth putting through the combine again? 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

11 months

312 bales of haylage carted & stacked.. finally 🤪

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

2,150 animals fed, watered & bedded down this morning 💪🐂🐖 Almost all farms here have expanded livestock numbers ahead of the loss of the SFP. Permission to sit on a tractor for the afternoon please 😅🚜

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

🌻 Today I have planted sunflowers on my farm & two others for the instagram/selfie market. Is this an example of a sassy business idea, or is it an example of being driven to new depths to maintain farm income? 🤔🌻

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Not having to buy any P & K and ~20% less N is one advantage of being a mixed farm

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

5 months

@AdeAdepitan @Channel4 @zandlandfilms “The vast majority are fed with soy, grain & corn” Honestly Ade, this is painful 🤦

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

How do #spiders do this overnight? 🕷🕸

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

At the #Doeshow today. It made me think, isn’t it just time for some joined up thinking? 🚜

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

For anyone that’s still wondering why #European farmers are protesting, watch this ⬇️

Dylan Jones

@Dylancastellior

3 months

It’s embarrassing to watch, bumbling with no direction and no answers. Do they understand the consequences of their actions on the next generation of farmers? Methodology Methodology Methodology bla bla bla. 😡

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Reading @GeorgeMonbiot ’s #regenesis . Interesting first chapter about soil. The claim that farmers spread artificial #fertiliser in the winter, as it’s cheaper to buy then is not true.

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

8 months

When Hadrian's wall was built in 122 AD, it wasn't recorded as being built in a forest 🤔 The population of Roman Britain then was 2 million 🌳🪓🌳

Ben Goldsmith

@BenGoldsmith

8 months

The issue is less the felled sycamore tree than the utterly sheep-wrecked landscape in which it stood.

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

@GeorgeMonbiot Fermented protein to feed the UK requires 150,000ha of solar panels and concrete 🙈 Oat milk will require 1.2m ha. Malting barley & alcohol 800,000ha 🍺 So that’s half the UK arable area on drinks & protein 🏭🌾 Doesn’t sound very efficient to me 🤔

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

6 months

To have this much beef with beef you would either have to be incredibly stupid or a paid actor. Or both 🐂

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

Even the data Hannah has produced proves her theory to be wrong. Why is @Channel4 broadcasting this @krishgm ? 🐂🥑

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

3 months

Buying local food to reduce your impact on the environment is “a really big myth”, says @_HannahRitchie . The Environmental data scientist tells @krishgm why sustainable food choices are complicated and buying local isn’t always the climate-friendly way.

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Had a call from the bird charity today, they also admitted to doing this because they thought it was theirs 😳

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Well there goes Joseph Poore & George Monbiot’s methane theory’s 💨 🐂 ‘The similar estimates for both wildlife & pastoralism - 76.2 vs 76.5 Mg CO2 -eq /sq km’ 🐂🦛🦌🐏🦒🐖🐘🐗🐆🐿️🐄🦬

Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannas

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Comparable GHG emissions from animals in wildlife and livestock-dominated savannas

www.nature.com

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Did anyone ever master this gearbox? 🤔 #ford #rubikscube

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Amazing what a bird charity can do to your land without asking 🤷‍♂️

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

Plant based bread 🥖 At last, I’m so tired of using beef terrine

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Dear @HenryDimbleby I am disappointed that you have used incorrect data, and amazed that you haven’t spotted the mistakes, which if you knew about UK agriculture you would be able to spot from a mile off 🧵(1)

Henry Dimbleby

@HenryDimbleby

2 years

Over 75% of farmland worldwide is used to graze animals of grow food to feed to animals. In the UK it is 85%. 20/

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

The flight to Ibiza and back emits around 700kg of CO2, similar to the claimed saving of a plant based diet for a year. So why do you give so much time to promoting plant based diets while still promoting air travel?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 months

Carting muck without getting any on government buildings. It’s a British thing 🧑‍🌾

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

6 months

@fionaharvey Do you think that because wood smoke is visible and has an odour some people have unrealistic concerns about it, compared say to the nitrous oxide emitted by every gas boiler in London?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

@theJeremyVine Surely that’s the correct use of a horn Jeremy? The cyclist pulls out of the cycle lane, in front of a car without looking 👀

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

33 million cars in the UK, 33 million sheep. Which is the bigger problem? 🐏🐑🚗🚗🐑🐏

Miles King

@MilesKing10

1 year

maintaining Lamb production at its current level is not sustainable. There were 33 million sheep/lambs in the UK last year. That's the largest flock in Europe - and as large as Turkey's, a country over 3 times as big. Sheep/lamb production has a huge land-use & climate footprint.

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 months

Don’t knock biting a moving tyre until you’ve tried it 👊 #collies 🐶

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Well I’ve managed to grow some pumpkins in a drought without any irrigation 🎃

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

5 months

@AdeAdepitan @Channel4 @zandlandfilms Ok. Are you aware that the Guardian has received money to write negative articles about farming?

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

4 months

Nothing better that buying #food from a farm shop. Especially the raw milk 😋 @FenFarmDairy 🐄

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

When a new tractor has an electrical issue, an old one will always step in its place 🚜 #ford #8210

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

5 months

So Ade, you ignored Mike. Still waiting for you to provide the government websites @AdeAdepitan 🤔 @Channel4 #beef 🐂

Ade Adepitan

@AdeAdepitan

5 months

@turbotechdog @Channel4 @zandlandfilms We got our stats from eminent scientist Mike Berners-Lee The Guardian and various other government websites. Would you like to discredit them. I think you watch it a 2 minute interview doesn’t tell you the whole story. Happy to take challenges after you’ve watched

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

6 months

Dad & Uncle Richard lifting sugar beet on the 12th October 1984. Ford 6610 on the 3 row Standen harvester & 7610 on the 6.5 tonne 😅 Bunnings dump trailer 🚜

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 years

all the latest gear here #harvest #farming #agriculture #norfolk #wheat

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

11 months

If smokers hadn’t gone before, how would we charge our phones? 🤷‍♂️🚜

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

I wonder if the designer of the Ransomes single leg subsoiler expected it to handle 200hp? 🤔💪

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 years

this muck will now be here for a year, and we will have to use more chemically compounded N. The more people try to save the environment, the more they f*ck it up #organicmanure #farming #agricultue #redtape #leaching

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@turbotechdog

3 months

#Farmers sow 300 meters of meadow on the RN165 in Quimper. #AngryFarmers

Anonyme Citoyen

@AnonymeCitoyen

3 months

Des #agriculteurs sèment 300 mètres de prairie sur la RN165 à Quimper. #AgriculteursEnColere

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

2 years

Winter wheat finished, header on the trolley, ready to move 8 miles away. Ahhhh, yes, that bit 🤦 doh

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

11 months

All that technology and you still have to run on the swath

Farmers Weekly

@FarmersWeekly

11 months

👏🏽 Winter barley all done in two days down in Hampshire. Brilliant footage. 🎥 Lewis Tosdevine | Sam Sykes

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Looks a bit wet in Brazil 🌧️ Worth watching until the end

𝙎𝙇𝙀 𝘼𝙂𝙍𝙊 🇧🇷

@StaLuziaEsteio

1 year

Wet #OAgroN ãoPara #Agro never stops #Brazil 🇧🇷

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

3 years

set the new combine driver off… back to the wedding 🤣😜😝 #harvest21

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

Dad & I had a meeting with a land agent representing an organisation this week. Here are the stomach curdling quotes… “We will buy your land at market value” “BPS finishes next year and we can help with that” 🤢🤮 #smarmy #lacedbrownshoes

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

1 year

“I’ve got the wax jacket, when does the poverty set in?”

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

6 months

Even Oatly has found feeding plant based waste to livestock to be the most sustainable option. Oatly fed 59% of its oat residue to livestock in 2022 🌾 🐖🐄 🌾

Professor Mark Maslin 𝕏 🙄

@ProfMarkMaslin

6 months

Which diet will help save our planet? If everyone had a mainly plant-based diet with red & processed meat banned, it would save 5.5 billion tonnes of CO₂/year, decrease global mortality by 10% and prevent the slaughter of billions of innocent animals.

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@turbotechdog

1 year

So I did… • Ben’s farm is actually Grade 3 - A loamy clay of moderate fertility • The farms immediately around are arable, dairy & pasture 🐄🚜🐂 So Ben, have I got the wrong farm, or do you need to look up what grade 5 land is?

Ben Goldsmith

@BenGoldsmith

1 year

@Claydencows @turbotechdog @Jes_Squirrell My place is Grade 5 heavy clay. You wouldn’t make a living farming intensively here. So instead I’m farming in the way it was farmed for centuries, Longhorns and Tamworths in wood pasture, for beef. Check the old maps. There were no fields here a century and a half ago.

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@turbotechdog

5 months

Like there literally is no cows in London, but there’s a fuck tonne of methane. Could you not do a programme investigating this? 🤔

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@turbotechdog

2 months

Are you an efficient eater? Can you convert fodder beet into nutrient dense food? Panda cow can 🐼 🐂 🥩

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@turbotechdog

2 months

Ploughing up tough & dry. Amazing how quickly things change 🚜

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@turbotechdog

11 months

A typical farming scene from the 1990’s… 🚜

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@turbotechdog

8 months

Is there a speed drilling championship? Asking for a friend ☺️ 🚜

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

25 days

In the mood for a laugh and finally got round to reading the Monbiot article 🍆 ‘Livestock farming is one of the most destructive industries on earth’ 😴 …Whilst I am bombarded with a car advert 🤦 🚗 Honestly @guardian , you have no morals

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@turbotechdog

1 year

Methane stays in the atmosphere for 12 years. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for 300 - 1,000 years Methane has 25x the warming potential of carbon dioxide 25 x 12 = 300 years equivalent So if vegetation rots down or is eaten by a ruminant, is there any difference?

Olivia Khwaja

@oliviakhwaja

1 year

Great TEDx talk by ffinlo Costain redressing the common misunderstanding about GHG effect of methane from ruminant animals, at the root of warped policy creation we’re seeing and =>poorer nutrition Full TEDx talk here #nutrition #regenerativeagriculture

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@turbotechdog

2 years

Dear @wef You claim that humanity could survive on 25% of croplands This would give each person 75kg of beans and 250kg of wheat a year, and only a proportion of it would be human edible This would end humanity @weareprotestors #wef22 #dutchfarmers

Report: We urgently need to move to plant-based diets

The planet’s ability to support us could come under threat if we don’t change how our food is produced, says a new report. It suggests three areas of action.

www.weforum.org

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Tom Wright

@turbotechdog

7 months

Eight years ago I spotted this self propelled power harrow contraption near Kempston, Bedfordshire. I’ve always wondered what the story was behind it 🤔🚜