Michael Priestley
@PriestleyFW
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Trying to make sense of the livestock sector for farmers. Reporter at Farmers Weekly
Yam, North Yorkshire
Joined February 2013
New entrant gets spring block calving system up and running #teamdairy #grasstomilk @RhidianGlyn discusses: Dairy set up costs 🪙 Heifer rearing launchpad 🐄 Others can do it! 😀 Importance of culture of learning, being open and sharing figures 👨🏫
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RT @HefinR: Just thinking about the APR changes - every forced land sale is likely to trigger some CGT and a chunk of stamp duty as well as…
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Concluding pars from farmer and journalist RM Lockey who pioneered and chaired a community farming project to turn around a dilapidated Pembrokeshire farm in WW2. He started Wales’s first machinery pool. 80 years on, and while gender roles have changed, does his observation hold?
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RT @FlockHealth: We NEED cattle & sheep antibiotic usage data collated at a national level - @Vet_Record this wk. Farm Vet teams are essent…
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@brianreidy75 @HefinR @mays_farm Thanks all, I wondered if this was worth further digging. No references given in paper so will ask. If any of you know any useful papers on intake and cow size, please share.
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@pirntatonjim @AW_ARobinson It’s distinctive...and perhaps I Ken it ‘cos my forebears were foiled in the fog!
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#Grazing #teamdairy farmers with milk going through NML and @NMRgroup labs - will you offer up your milk records to help @RHC_Agriculture lecturer Sophie Park with her @LivUni PhD help better understand parasite risk
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Suckler herd contraction starting to show in kill projections. What will happen? Less #beef? More imports? Where from? Thanks @Brummiebeef for your thoughts on supply outlook. @natbeefassoc
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Is this as people feared? A one-way #beef trade deal. Understandably, Australian exports are not a priority for UK trade delegations.
An unnamed exporter was told its British beef jerky could not enter Australia because the UK government had not yet requested access. READ MORE:
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🚜🐄STATE OF THE INDUSTRY SURVEY🥩: Please all #beef producers complete this survey in conjunction with @natbeefassoc It's anonymous and takes 5-10mins Dairy beef, breeder, finisher, suckler - all opinions valued Link here ➡️➡️
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@farmer_richiet @DafElfyn First educational exchange I’ve read on Twitter today. good to see. Do you think 10% trees and 10% habitat is workable?
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Beef finisher: Red clover/ryegrass/homegrown beans has saved £1/head/day on the old ad-lib barley and beef ration for a Yorkshire farm #soilhealth #forage @Southdevons @AberdeenAngusUK
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Well done to @Damndelicious - it appears an honest oversight has been addressed. A positive story in the end
🏴 Supermarket giant @Tesco has removed a poster from one its stores after a beef farmer flagged that its local sourcing pledge was not being met. Great work Michael Shannon! 👏🏽 READ MORE:
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Make enough profit to pay an imputed/theoretical rent and give a 10% return on capital - this is the aim of beef and sheep farmer @GeorgeBurrell97
Great article on @GeorgeBurrell97’s approach and learnings from #RootsToResilience 👏 Top job @PriestleyFW
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@jonathansid Next year seems like the one that will bite those who haven’t sewn up enough. But we seem to have been saying “next year” for several years!
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