Words, dont come easy.

delilah

Member
It will be fascinating to see what the NFU PR department's weekend cover is like.

I think we can safely take it that the answer to that is 'Non-existent'.

- yesterday a vegan video was posted, an hour long demolition job on UK livestock farming. You can't believe that it would have been left there is anyone was on duty? (I assume you can control content on your own fb page?).
- but it's ok, the pre-programmed post of a tasty pumpkin recipe appeared on schedule.

Clearly, a £21m wage bill doesn't get you weekend cover these days. You can all mull that over as you go out this morning and tend to your stock for a pittance.
 

Treg

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall

delilah

Member
Poor BBC can't please everyone.

It was on R4 feedback last night, due to the number of complaints from vegans the BBC thought they should get someone in to answer the criticism. Amusingly they chose Tim Lang, who admitted to knowing Joanna Blythman ( they are basically mates) and he skillfully avoided dissing anything she had said.

There are two important lessons in this:
- The BBC aren't biased against livestock farming, the problem is that there is a paucity of people putting themselves forward - ie being put forward by our national bodies - who can string a sentence together re the environmental benefits of red meat production. Put them forward and they can get air time.
- Look at that response from Viva. They produced an 800 word response to the Joanna Blythman interview. Does anyone representing the livestock industry respond with such force whenever a vegan story is run ?

Again: who is involved, who is committed ?
 

delilah

Member
Thanks are due to @Guy Smith , who yesterday on hearing about the videos and posts criticizing UK agriculture on the NFU fb page got them swiftly removed (y)

Hopefully this may trigger a change in tack with regards NFU social media. Less recipes. More explanation as to the environmental benefits of UK home production.
All the raw material is on TFF, the NFU just need to see this as a FOC resource to help them get the message across.
 
Thanks are due to @Guy Smith , who yesterday on hearing about the videos and posts criticizing UK agriculture on the NFU fb page got them swiftly removed (y)

Hopefully this may trigger a change in tack with regards NFU social media. Less recipes. More explanation as to the environmental benefits of UK home production.
All the raw material is on TFF, the NFU just need to see this as a FOC resource to help them get the message across.

It certainly proved that there is no weekend cover at the NFU PR department.
 

Guy Smith

Member
Location
Essex
As I’ve said before, we run 24/7 cover.
It was a link placed in a comment last week, not the weekend, that eluded the Facebook filters so we have addressed it. But thanks to Delilah for her heads up.
 

egbert

Member
Livestock Farmer
Some organisations, the words just flow. They deliver their message – however serious it may be - in a style that is easy on the eye. Facts, context and anecdote are interwoven to make a crystal-clear point: “whilst the problem may be complex the solution is simple, and it involves you.”
This quality of writing is common within the environmental movement. Likewise, human rights organisations. This quality is borne of the fact that the author is wholly immersed in their subject. The issues are constantly swirling around in their head, such that to sit down and express them in print is almost a physical relief. It is not so much a job, more a calling.
Once in a generation a politician fits the bill. Sir Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner. Whilst you may question the content, you can’t help but admire the style.

Some organisations, it is as if English is not their first language. Awkward, disjointed, stilted. The message is in there, but it is delivered in such a scattergun style that you have to search for it. As Eric Morecambe would have put it, they are playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.
It is all the more painful when you feel an affinity with the author. You desperately want to cheer them on, safe in the knowledge that if you are getting the message then others will be too. Instead, you are left understanding exactly how your language teacher felt all those years ago as she marked your pitiful attempt at French comprehension.

Martina Navratilova had it nailed when talking about tennis: “You have to decide if you are involved or committed. Think ham and eggs. The chicken is involved, the pig is committed.”

At the end of yet another week of farmer bashing, is there anyone out there who will stand up on the national stage and show their commitment to UK agriculture?
is there a salary attached?
 

delilah

Member
As I’ve said before, we run 24/7 cover.
It was a link placed in a comment last week, not the weekend, that eluded the Facebook filters so we have addressed it. But thanks to Delilah for her heads up.

Apologies, Guy, but you need to give the NFU fb team the heads up again. I have just had a look and there are anti-livestock/ anti farmer comments again.
You might say that they have only been there for 11 hours, unlike the 10 days worth that were there last time you intervened. Fair enough, but you've got 50k worth of people following your page, which is great, they don't need to be seeing this.
We have a fb page, any disparaging comments on there and I expect our fb elf to take them down pronto, and she's a volunteer.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 77 43.5%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 62 35.0%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 28 15.8%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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