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Not sure if Downing Street can dictate Morrison’s lamb sourcing policies

Hampshire.

Herbal leys at £382/ha. Multi species winter cover crops can include stubble turnips and forage rape. £129/ha I even have a couple of farmers wanting their cereals grazed, though that was a bit scuppered by the incredibly wet winter.

No shortage of land round here to graze. The biggest challenge is financing the stock and fencing needed with interest rates as they are. Some sheep farmers might be winding back, but locally it’s because they are getting older, nothing to do with government policy. The SFI encourages grazing...

All kinds of people really. College/uni students. Mums between school drop off and pick up. Self employed or part time employees wanting an income top up. Some active retirees who got bored sitting about at home. It is a vineyard so there was an element of ‘glamour’ factor initially but that...

We run a horticultural business that used to use Romanians. They couldn’t come over during Covid and so we moved to using all local labour. It can be done. We have a 120 strong WhatsApp group to let folk know of upcoming labour requirements and they book in as fits them. It works really well...

The smell of fleeces at shearing. The smell of homemade sloe gin in my hip flask on the first day of the hunting season. Its definitely not the smell of burnt hoof… as the husband of a farrier I can attest that!

Damn these SFI options these arable farmers are going into, with their boundless clean grazing. It’ll be the end of all of us 😱

We even had them and I’m only 20 miles from the South coast! Never seen them before

Pretty well, I think! All very relaxed. Lucy Ambache was the presenter. Married to an arable farmer apparently but from London originally

People have been complaining that there’s no future in farming since about 1750. Plenty of us still buggering on!

If anyone fancies a laugh I’m on a panel for the Radio Solent farming special from 3-4pm today. I’m the one who likes sheep!

Edited my post. A TLA is definitely 10 miles. Not sure about linked holdings.

I was told this bunch needed moving asap as they were running out of grass. What do the Northern collective say to that? 🤣

Has to be within 10 miles for a TLA