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Headys farm

@headysfarm

just your average British farmer, sharing my day to day life on a mixed farm in Buckinghamshire

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Steve Reed MP The above message is just wrong simple as that. By a review of our clients between 75% and 80% of farming businesses are affected . These are all family farms that produce the food that you eat . #StoptheFamilyFarmTax

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Busy day in Westminster talking to MPs and attending the rally. Thanks for all the support. Pictures don’t do justice to just how many people turned out. We now need to gather the evidence to prove how wrong the treasury figures are! #StopTheFamilyFarmTax

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Made this episode to reflect on last week's #farmerrally in London and the wider context for farmers at the moment. Huge thanks to Headys farm , Bizza Walters and Ben Cooper for their help with this one. #budget #FarmersProtest Rachel Reeves open.spotify.com/episode/1zMH36…

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Why should farmers get inheritance tax breaks? Here is my take on it. The Labour Party you need to stop hiding behind your flawed figures, if you only want to hit 27% of farmers then make the changes! #stopthefamilyfarmtax

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I love my Sencrop - Connected weather for farmers 🌡️❄️🌦️ weather stations, they help me quantify the crazy weather we have had this year. There is currently a Christmas offer: From 26 Nov - 20 Dec 2024, take advantage of -30% discount on your first year's subscription. bit.ly/40cHmuA

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Today at the #LiaisonCommittee, EFRA Committee Chair Alistair Carmichael MP asked the PM about the #FamilyFarmTax: 1.) Who were the targets of these changes? 2.) Are HMT's figures robust, given so many have said they aren't? 3.) Will the Chancellor meet farming representatives?

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Thank you Callum Anderson MP for coming out today to listen to a group of farm suppliers & service providers. Farmers are focusing on survival with very little optimism for the future, so long term investment is stalling and it’s not just the farmers that are feeling the pinch.

Thank you <a href="/_CallumAnderson/">Callum Anderson MP</a> for coming out today to listen to a group of farm suppliers &amp; service providers.
Farmers are focusing on survival with very little optimism for the future, so long term investment is stalling and it’s not just the farmers that are feeling the pinch.
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I spent yesterday with numb fingers and toes, using the frozen hard ground to get muck out of the cattle sheds and into the fields. These cold snaps are very useful, but not particularly comfortable to work in🥶. #farmers #farming #farmlife

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Hi, I am in Buckingham town centre for the Farmers Day of Unity today. If you are local, come and have a chat and a sit in the tractor. #StoptheFamilyFarmTax National Farmers' Union NFU Berks, Bucks, Ox

Hi, I am in Buckingham town centre for the Farmers Day of Unity today. If you are local, come and have a chat and a sit in the tractor. #StoptheFamilyFarmTax <a href="/NFUtweets/">National Farmers' Union</a> <a href="/NFUBBO/">NFU Berks, Bucks, Ox</a>
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Oli Fletcher is a farmer, a Labour Party member and Save British Farming 🇬🇧 organiser. His commentary here is one of the best ever summaries of how successive governments are failing our farmers - on many aspects. Please take a few minutes to watch and listen.

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Spring drilling is underway! We’ll have patched up the gappy winter crops, drilled our spring oats, and now just have spring wheat left to sow. Our clay soils are slow to dry, so this lovely weather is providing the perfect conditions 😎. #drilling #farming

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We have given up waiting for our SFI agreement to come through, and have started sowing wheat in areas we planned to leave as habitat. In my time on the farm cash flow has never been tighter, so we can’t risk leaving fields bare for a scheme we may not be accepted into.

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Currently battling with a biodiversity metric to get planning permission to change a field into a dog walking field🤦🏻‍♂️! No biodiversity lost, but I still need to provide a 10% biodiversity net gain, what’s that all about 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Currently battling with a biodiversity metric to get planning permission to change a field into a dog walking field🤦🏻‍♂️! No biodiversity lost, but I still need to provide a 10% biodiversity net gain, what’s that all about 🤷🏻‍♂️.
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Got lucky today. While investigating why the speed sensor on the sprayer wasn’t working, we found the wheel bearing had failed. So we jacked her up to investigate and the wheel pretty much fell off! That was close to being very serious, but all fixed now 😮‍💨

Got lucky today. While investigating why the speed sensor on the sprayer wasn’t working, we found the wheel bearing had failed. So we jacked her up to investigate and the wheel pretty much fell off! That was close to being very serious, but all fixed now 😮‍💨
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Interesting to see the allelopathic effect as the patches of blackgrass weeds have release a substance into the soil suppressing the wheat germination. Not ideal, but interesting. #blackgrass #farming

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Hi, does anyone know of a decent solution to fill the gaps left by box profile sheets? The foam fillers don’t seem to last, and I can’t find anything more solid to buy online 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Hi, does anyone know of a decent solution to fill the gaps left by box profile sheets? The foam fillers don’t seem to last, and I can’t find anything more solid to buy online 🤷🏻‍♂️.
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A bit of a progress report on a field of spring oats that I drilled a couple of weeks ago (you might have seen the sowing video). This time I am spreading some nitrogen fertiliser onto the crop to help it grow big and strong. #farming

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Crazy ghost tree! Caterpillars have made a kind of silk web all over the tree and turned it from brown and green to white! Creepy but cool, I hope the tree will be ok! #nature #wildlife #caterpillars