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COP26 ... Your predictions

Bald Rick

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Anglesey
lol, definitely not. I just keep a weather eye on what AR are up to, to remind myself what 'commitment' looks like. They may be fundamentally at odds with UK livestock producers, but in terms of getting their message across they leave us standing.

Indeed they do which perhaps demonstrates how damaging social media can be.
Who knows if Russian misinformation isn't behind AR?
It's an easy hit to lay blame on farming in our septic isle
 

delilah

Member
How do nutters like that stroll in and get a seat at the table while bodies like NFUS are being rebuffed and are really struggling to get a seat at the table.

My question to NFUS would be : are you going to be at this event ?

https://cop26coalition.org/peoples-...-highlighting-agroecology-as-real-solution-2/

Because that is where we as an industry need to be. Making alliances, finding common ground, understanding who our allies and who our enemies are. No point going to COP and putting our wagons in a circle, we don't have enough wagons.
 

Top Tip.

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Location
highland
My question to NFUS would be : are you going to be at this event ?

https://cop26coalition.org/peoples-...-highlighting-agroecology-as-real-solution-2/

Because that is where we as an industry need to be. Making alliances, finding common ground, understanding who our allies and who our enemies are. No point going to COP and putting our wagons in a circle, we don't have enough wagons.
They are going to be there and you’re approach is exactly the way it is being tackled absolutely no point in going in to antagonise. My point is that they have found it very difficult to get a toe in the door.
 

delilah

Member
They are going to be there and you’re approach is exactly the way it is being tackled absolutely no point in going in to antagonise. My point is that they have found it very difficult to get a toe in the door.

I've just had another look at the speakers at that event. There is a lady from NFU Canada. How incredibly refreshing. How can it be that in Canada their NFU recognises that the environmental and social justice movement are farmers allies, whilst on here there is so much negativity and suspicion ?

If you are part of NFUS, please do try to get a presence at that meeting, and take someone from main NFU with you (y)
 

delilah

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Bald Rick

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Location
Anglesey

farmerm

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Location
Shropshire
Our plumber came to service our oil boiler and explained he spends a lot of his time now removing heat pumps and fitting oil boilers because home owners realise they are costing an absolute bomb in electricity and that they only work if your home is insulated to the max and has no drafts whatsoever. This means you need modern UPVC windows which start and remain draft tight- many timber framed windows don't remain draft tight forever because wood naturally moves around as it ages.
Such sealed up houses get damp and moldy because the moisture from cooking, showering and breathing cant escape!
 

N.Yorks.

Member
I for one am fed up with these pompous ass holes trying their very hardest to make farmers the whipping boys of this so called climate "emergency", I'm a big fan of the royal tradition but was a little surprised when Charlie decides to tell the world he's doing his bit by giving up meat on Mondays & Tuesdays as if it made a difference, bet that went down really well with his hundreds of livestock producing tenant farmers, if it's such a great idea how about rent free Mondays & Tuesdays just to balance the books up a bit!
A wise old chap once said "better to keep your opinions to yourself & let people think you're a fool then to give them & confirm all their suspicions"! Maybe the queen should have passed this advise onto Charlie & Andrew a long long time ago.
Great play is made of organic farming but for 95% of livestock farmers the only difference between organic & traditional farmers are a couple of cwt of fertiliser per acre which is a minuscule part in the grand scale of the problem.
Autumn lamb price is pretty damn good at the moment??
 

N.Yorks.

Member
One lot of experts are telling us to grow more grass and keep more livestock to improve soil health and get more carbon into soils.

Now methane is so bad that all livestock are ruining the atmosphere and must be done away with so that everyone can carry on as they are - flying, driving, ploughing, going to the moon etc
There's good and bad livestock systems...... we all know that. Grass based diets for UK beef and lamb (y)
 

Ted M

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Shropshire

Headline news, but look at the graphics for meat and where that faux information is regurgitated from.
Interesting to see the 58 to 42% split between animal products and "other foods" which is likely skewed anyway given the persuasion of our favourite research scientist.
If you applied nutrient density to that I daresay it would make the numbers somewhat different.
Not all foods are created equal and this method of so many kg/carbon per kg of food is far too simplistic.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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