Matthew Blair
@ThrimbyFarms
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First generation tenant farmers. Farming at Thrimby, Cumbria. Beef and Sheep, keen to teach people about our lives. You will catch us on “This Farming Life”
Cumbria
Joined November 2015
Some would say hard as nails, i call her my wife. Scanning cows while pregnant, TB testing in her last few days and C-sectioning a ewe 2 weeks post herself. Just what you do on a farm. Every farmer has a wife that grafts as hard, sometimes harder. #ThisFarmingLife
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@sussexfarming @NoFarmsNoFoods @NFUtweets @ProagriLtd @FarmersGuardian @FarmersWeekly @Woodheads12 @Morrisons @GBNEWS @BBC_Cumbria @BBCNews The 21 days has helped massive. 5 days was hopeless.
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@sussexfarming @NoFarmsNoFoods @NFUtweets @ProagriLtd @FarmersGuardian @FarmersWeekly @Woodheads12 @Morrisons @GBNEWS @BBC_Cumbria @BBCNews We are sampling some sheep down in the south east last week of the month and hopfully roll them home
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@sussexfarming @NoFarmsNoFoods @NFUtweets @ProagriLtd @FarmersGuardian @FarmersWeekly @Woodheads12 @Morrisons @GBNEWS @BBC_Cumbria @BBCNews Little easier for you to move now maybe?
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@sussexfarming @NoFarmsNoFoods @NFUtweets @ProagriLtd @FarmersGuardian @FarmersWeekly @Woodheads12 @Morrisons @GBNEWS @BBC_Cumbria @BBCNews Very kind. I follow and admire what you’re on with.
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@Radmore_farm @NoFarmsNoFoods Can you spot the dog and sheep? You could bring him gathering next year.
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One of the best put across vids i’ve seen. This is why farmers feel threatened, abused and angry. Farmers have been made to feel thick, stupid and the bottom of the heap for far too long. Please share and listen. We need the public as much as they need us.
This is one of the best summaries of how the government are hammering UK farmers on so many different levels. Please take a few minutes of your time to watch and listen. Support our farmers. Our food security depends on them. @SaveBritishFood
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RT @NoFarmsNoFoods: MP on the Farm: The next UK Parliamentary recess is 14 February - 23 February. MPs should work on a local constitue…
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@Jane61773534728 The demand says the total opposite about people moving to a plant based diet. I think that’s just in people’s heads.
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@sharrond62 Because they are like sheep and follow the leader. Not one could run a car never mind a buisness.
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RT @NoFarmsNoFoods: “The campaign group No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods said they are now asking McDonald’s @McDonaldsUK to “join retai…
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So this is what we produce and put in to the local economy from the greens white part in Cumbria. This is why maps like this are bloody dangerous.
If there is an image that defines Labour and Tory thinking in the Land Use Consultation, this is it (It was commissioned under the Conservatives but launched last week by Steve Reed). Taken from @HenryDimbleby's Food Strategy evidence pack published in 2022, it sets out how policy makers think you can have your cake and eat it when trying to retain current levels of food self-sufficiency while taking a lot of agricultural land out of production.
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@SueAnn60779256 I’d love that, it’s been offered. @timfarron is taking us up on the offer but he’s a key supporter anyway. Most of them have no interest, no desire. Seems to just be a belief that food turns up on the shelves regardless.
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@golfnshoot @FrontierAg It’s all the what we can’t see won’t hurt us. Exporting problems is there way of dealing with it
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