D'Tractor Mark @hubmaker

Farmer of habitat, planter of trees, harvester of coppice for crafts & BBQ smoke woods. Grower of farm fresh foliage, flowers & giant vegetables. Rustical.co.uk Hesketh Bank. Lancashire Joined May 2012

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D'Tractor Mark @hubmaker

a day ago

@TWBFarms Saw the number so didn't waste my time even with the press release. No point. Good luck to those who can afford the resource/hired help to grab some crumbs off the table.

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Sama Hoole @SamaHoole

2 days ago

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep. The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements. For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own. The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing. Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin. So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good. A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off. You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

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D'Tractor Mark @hubmaker

6 days ago

@andy4makerfield Josh Simons?

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D'Tractor Mark @hubmaker

a week ago

@ScouseTims @DanNeidle P11D has been used to report employee expenses and benefits-in-kind since the early 1960s. They knew.

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Dan Neidle @DanNeidle

a week ago

As with all the other stories about politicians and tax, if politicians are going to create complex tax laws for the rest of us, then it's not too much to expect them to follow it themselves.

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Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All

a week ago

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys. I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint. Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality. I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths. White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral" You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

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D'Tractor Mark @hubmaker

2 weeks ago

It's hard to reconcile this with the annual pleas for veg harvesters and sheep shearers. Who knew vape shop assistants were a priority?

Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien

2 weeks ago

"Best and brightest?! "Bringing incredible skills" -A quick visual tour of firms allowed to sponsor "skilled worker" visas shows the reality: 1/10 Sai's Bargains Ltd