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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻

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Accidental farmer | conservationist @ElyNFFarming #FederalUK Views my own

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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A little snapshot from my day at "Cereals" on Wednesday, held at Jeremy Clarkson's famous Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds. Will there be more wildflowers and less grain to eat due to Govt policy, economics & climate in 2027? I shared some thoughts on @farmersweeklyuk.bsky.social Question Time
A snapshot if daisies, poppies, ragged robin and cirnflowers
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you haven't already listened in, could I just recommend the excellent AGonomics podcast from AHDB. Here is the latest episode: open.spotify.com/episode/2PMT...
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Farm inheritance tax impact
Agonomics with David Eudall · Episode
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Food 4 Thought 🏛️Farming is the foundation of our civilisation 🪖Digging 4 victory was key to surviving WWII ½ 🌍 population is only alive now due to the Green Revolution 🍽️ Humans need more food in next 25yrs than in all history combined 📈 Climate is making it harder 👇😬 x.com/EdConwaySky/...
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ahh afternoon tea time on Friday 🫖☕️ Good to remember that the entire annual £2.5bn Defra farming budget represents only 4.66 days of NHS spending. So if you had started spending it on the NHS instead of farming at midnight on Sunday, it would have just run out.
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
NEW DEFRA stats just out. Show that in 2023/24 cereal farm incomes fell by 73% On average cereal farms made a £26k loss on their crops, only earning an income due to direct govt subsidy & non-farming activity. Even so, 1/3 of all cereals farms made a loss despite other income.
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
I suggest that NOWHERE else in the UK faces the intense land use trade off between climate, nature, food security and economy as in the Fens. Really informed article here, worth a read 🤓👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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The secret to sustainable farming in the Fens? It’s in the water
Feeding the nation while cutting carbon emissions is a challenge, but growers in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia are engineering a solution in the peaty soil
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 17/09/2024
24 hours ago I booked a one-night stay at a hotel in Manchester on Saturday. I paid upfront, I have made no changes to the booking. I have so far received seven emails about it. SEVEN. Would i like to upgrade, would I like to pre-book some champagne? Chocolate? A mini bar? An alcohol free mini bar?
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
The average UK house price buys 6.1 metres of motorway.
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,136,428!
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Hello Zoropsis spinimana! 🫤
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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Head, shoulders, wings, and toes - heron toes! 📷 #birds
A photo of a great blue heron flying over golden water, with its large wings and long toes on full display.
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
If you know, you know 🫣
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Gives us this day, our daily bread 🌾 🍞 An unusual pause in harvest activity today, as the wheat that's left isn't ready. Partly because it was sown so late, because of all the 🌧️ That also means yields are very, very poor 🥺🍽️
Combine harvester sending up a plume of straw dust into a stunning wide fenland sunset of purple, orange, yellow and blue.
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
I grew up on a small family farm in New Jersey & I have an M.S. in agricultural economics from Purdue. People think 'the heartland' is full of family farms run by unpretentious 'folk' who drive 10 year old pickup trucks, but much of modern farming is controlled by multinational conglomerates. 1/2
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
There you go. The people who own that equipment know its value per hour down to the penny. During planting & harvesting season, the 'shadow price' of an hour of modern tractor time might be several thousands of $$.
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Peter Sturdgess @petersturdgess.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
You might have heard the phrase "No Farmers No Food", now we seem to have No Seed No Food. Is it time the farming industry joined the EU? www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Brexit delays to seed imports could hit crop production, say growers
Tomato and pepper growers call for UK to strike deal with EU to avoid disruption and duplicate testing
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Gareth @justgareth.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
The climate crisis is essentially a food crisis. Oh, and good morning news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Another month, another heat record broken: UN weather agency
Last month saw another extreme weather milestone with the world’s hottest day on recent record registered on 22 July – yet another indication of the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions from human...
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David Hill @hillscountry.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Introductions… I’m David, I manage land with farming, forestry and houses in the Berkshire Downs. I’ve got a huge enthusiasm for the countryside, communities, food and conservation. I’m a (mostly off road) cyclist and a maker of pictures; formerly a profession, now more a hobby.
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Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Behold the majestic floof of this canary-shouldered thorn moth and let your Monday be that little bit more bearable. This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council. Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨
An absofuckinglutely majestic fluffy yellow moth standing facing the camera defiantly like the lepidopteran royalty that it is. If Monday tries to come for you, this moth will find it and crush that Monday like a very, very tiny grape. This moth has big round grey eyes, delightful comb-like antennas, a fluffy body, and wings that look like autumn leaves. A plus plus plus moth buddy.A side view of the extremely stylish and fluffy and majestic yellow moth, with wings held aloft. Those wings are an autumnal shade of orange tan, with dark speckles and crenellated wing edges that make them look like autumn leaves. It's a very good moth friend, 14 out of 10 would recommend.A close up on the majestic yellow moth so you can tell how fluffy its body is. Its very, very, very fluffy. Like an extremely plush plushie. From this alt you can also see it's legs are orange and brown speckled at the top and pale peach towards the feet, like it's wearing fancy shorts. Nice work little moth.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Meme of Victoria and David Beckham:
Victoria: I’m staying on Twitter to fight fascism
David: Be honest
Victoria: I’m staying on Twitter to promote my book
David: Be honest
Victoria: I just like having a big audience 
David: Thank you.
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Scots Lass 🌶️ @sheenahorner.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
I’ve been on here for quite a while now and it has been quiet though enjoyable. Great to see a sudden influx of newbies. Now let’s keep that positivity flowing please 🙏🏻
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a dog is standing on its hind legs in front of a fence and a sign that says yippee .
ALT: a dog is standing on its hind legs in front of a fence and a sign that says yippee .
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Edinvale Farm @edinvalefarm.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Looking for a less toxic place than X so trying this out. I am a farmer, butcher, husband and father (not necessarily in that order) in the Highlands of Scotland. We have Highland and Shorthorn Cattle and are #PastureforLife certified. Looking forward to connecting with folk
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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk · 12/02/2024
For those with an interest in nature and climate-friendly farming, RSPB Hope Farm have a series of technical webinars through February and March - details on Twitter: twitter.com/RSPBHopeFarm...
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
[Old pinned tweet] So. I've gone out on a limb in these dark and troubling times, and tried to look ahead at what things might be like 20yrs from now. Very different, and good for farmers?🤷🏻‍♂️ www.farmersguardian.com/news/4090072...
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A look into the future of UK agriculture
It is March 20, 2040 exactly 20 years to the day since the Coronavirus pandemic forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson (remember him?) to acknowledge the Brexit transition period would have to be extende...
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Tom Clarke 🇺🇦🌻 @tom-clarke.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
It's harvest time on the farm, and tentatively dipping my toe into this new blue world...
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