Recent content by john 650

Best of a bad bunch I called him- which doesn't imply he's any good, but I'd not swap him for any of the others in cabinet, particularly not Gething, Griffiths, Evans, Skates, James, Miles or Hutt... Neagle I've no idea about. Morgan is Elystan Morgan's daughter, and a former MEP, who you would...

Whilst the consultation is no longer open, now is the time that the civil servants who actually make the rules are "deciphering" what they've received... If anything, its more important to keep the pressure on from now to the summer, than it was during the consultation period...

Seem to remember he was quite pragmatic when shadow Defra secretary in Westminster, so probably, the best of a bad bunch.

It's a mineral. It came from the ground and is a natural element. The mineral content won't have changed. With a bolus, the means of delivery, or carrier may well have changed, and may not last as long as the manufacturer intended (or may last longer) , but the mineral won't have changed...

You'll be fine with their hill breed ewes till August. The fun really starts when grand parents insist on giving our kids Dorset pet ewe lambs, who then end up popping out a small black runt every 6 months...

Yes, but that's not really the question.. It's inevitable that as farms "consolidate", so do their suppliers, and it's not a new process.

Sheds were built where the processors wanted them, in proximity to their factories, but also where planners allowed them. Powys council for a while were more agreeable to chicken units, so there's more of them in the greater Wye catchment- it's also a bloody big catchment...

Market driven surely... Pretty sure it can be done in a heartbeat- I mean, the weights carried are tiny compared to lorries. Not sure who'd pay for it though...

There's no getting away from the fact we're a white elephant in reality, when flights are increasing, no progress is made on electric production, and oil is pumped at record levels, and an easy target, as the industry doesn't have the resource of the oil/travel industries to lobby. But it...

In 2005 the UK produced just approx 750,000 tonnes of beef. in 2022 it was over 900,000t- that's a 17% increase The cattle numbers in 2005 were just over 10.5m. 2022 just under 9.5m. A 10% reduction...

I can't like this post enough. Sitting on SM saying Net Zero is a load of rubbish, and booing Abi Reader ain't going to achieve anything. Ruminant agriculture has taken huge strides in improving it's emissions, and we can prove that we're really not that far from it- when the...

The more he appears on GBeebies news etc the less effective his message is at getting across- and the more it quite rightly fans the flames spread by the likes of Alun Davies and his type. It can only harm us.

She's toxic, as is most of her platform. Nothing good can come of it.

Katie Hopkins????... and yet people wonder why the campaign is accused of being hijacked by the right wing... Seriously.... She's not going to add any more credibility to an argument than Packham or Monbiot does to the counter. She's just going to add to her own clickbait youtube income.

her consultation doc won't alter, but her press statements, such as the interview last Sunday, and the gov statement last week may alter what will be submitted by the NFU in their response- right up to the deadline.