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Niff Whitton retweeted
Delighted to see more rural hubs benefiting from free health checks - now at Rugby + Thrapston markets.
Pop along and have a quick + painless MOT next time you’re there.
👏🏻@FCNcharity
@nfumidlands @NFUMKettering @NiffWhitton @nfum_MarketHarb
Niff Whitton retweeted
Eat plant-based food, your choice.
Eat meat, also your choice.
We just ask that where possible - Buy British!🇬🇧
Niff Whitton retweeted
Important that members take this first opportunity to feed in to the overarching review into farm assurance to make it fit for the future.
I’ll be chairing one of two events in @NFULNR on 8th April. Register via the link ⬇️
NFU members | Join us for a session to develop & inform our response to the independent ‘Farm Assurance Review'.
We want to listen to members &, together, ensure farm assurance delivers for farmers & growers. Read more about these member-exclusive events👉ow.ly/HN3U50QYUuc
Having just finished @Dawn_French wonderful new book I have only just clocked what I was using as a book mark.... it feels so appropriate 🤣🤣
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🧵 Big news today, @RedTractorFood have dropped the planned Greener Farms Commitment
fwi.co.uk/news/red-tractor-a…
Fantastic morning spent at The Snooty Fox, Lowick for the launch of the 2024 @foodawardsHQ Food and Drink Awards. What a great thing to be part of and loved meeting some of last years winners who all have such passion for what they do.
#SupportLocal #FarmtoFork #NFU
Great afternoon with @FCNcharity - very helpful and hopefully equipping myself to be there to support others.
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I need help to try and help others within the UK Sheep Industry.
I have attached some context of what we, and so many others, have faced this year due to #Schmallenberg.
Losses throughout the UK are potentially massive & a conjoined plan of action for a Vaccine must be formed.
This is such a sad state of affairs but one that is not isolated.
We are losing our local communities which so many people rely on.
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What a jam packed couple of days! (Yes I actually made the second day this year!)
As an industry we have to stick together to provide a strong voice that the government, the public and our stakeholders can't ignore. No one does that better than @nfulife. There are plenty of
Niff Whitton retweeted
NFU secures double-cab pick-up win🛻
After urgent discussions with the NFU & vehicle manufacturers the government has reversed plans to change the tax status of double cap pick-ups, a change which would have cost rural businesses significant sums👉ow.ly/Z7i050QFCW9
📷Alamy
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@NFUCymru @AledNfu @AbiReader are doing an incredible job. Every farmer in Wales MUST have their say. Please respond to the consultation. Both in England and Wales we need #SustainableFoodProduction the fight will never stop to achieve it 💪🐄🌾🐑👇
"There has to be some form of resolution so that we can actually have a future & there is undoubtedly a future."
Our President @AledNfu has spoken to @BBCRadioWales about the industry's concerns on the Sustainable Farming Scheme proposals.
Have your say ow.ly/666K50QzM6u
Niff Whitton retweeted
🥛 The @EnglandRugby squad drinks 2,500 litres of milk during the Six Nations, and @JoeMarler credits the white stuff for helping him recover from a broken leg earlier in his career...
READ MORE: fwi.co.uk/news/england-rugby…
Next question - why don't we flip things and have British produce as standard and label all imported produce with where it comes from on the front of it like.... "Spanish bacon" or "Polish Chicken".
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Today is the start of the @Gameandwildlife 2024 Big Farmland Bird Count. Farmers & growers will spend the next 2 weeks recording bird species & numbers on farms to see the impact of conservation work on UK farmland bird population 👏🐦
Get involved👇ow.ly/v69S50QwhVq
Good start to the day at @HCRlawRural Agricultural Breakfast Seminar. Valuable updates on SFI'S, Biodiversity Net Gain, Rights of Way going ons and Proprietary Estoppel to name a few of the subjects covered.
yummy bacon butties too!
🧵With the Wellingborough by-elections we have been getting our @NFUtweets members infront of the candidates. Tuesday we had Gen Kitchen for the Labour Party (with Shadow EFRA SoS Steve Reed and Shadow Minister, Toby Perkins).
Today we had Ana Savage Gunn for the Lib Dems.
