Neil Preece @nmapreece

Concrete cow farmer Holme-on-Spalding-Moor Joined October 2013

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kohima.io 🌱 @kohima_io

9 months ago

One litre of milk emits more carbon than burning one litre of petrol. I’m sorry, what? According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, producing one litre of milk emits 2.5 kg of CO2 equivalent, while burning one litre of petrol emits 2.3 kg. If that comparison doesn’t make you question the logic behind carbon accounting, congratulations, you’ve been conditioned by bad data. Take the BBC’s Food Carbon Calculator. It claims that drinking 400 litres of milk is equivalent to driving 40 miles in a petrol car. And just seven McDonald’s Quarter Pounders could apparently get you from London to Malaga by plane. It’s absurd. These numbers are wrong. And they distort public perception of agriculture. Why? Because carbon accounting assumes my cows are powered by fossil fuels. In reality, the carbon in milk comes from crops , silage and grains , that draw carbon from the air. My cows don’t dig carbon out of the ground; they cycle it through life itself. But the models don’t account for that. They also ignore balance and boundaries. When we measure a litre of petrol, we only count its combustion. When we measure a litre of milk, we include everything: global land-use change, fertiliser production in Egypt, deforestation in Brazil, even if none of it applies. All that gets loaded onto the farmer’s books. Agriculture is the only industry forced to carry the world’s emissions baggage. And then there’s the use of global averages. They inflate numbers to make farming look worse. UK milk, for instance, has about half the emissions of the global average — but that nuance never makes the headlines. Finally, no one credits farmers for the carbon we capture. The hedgerows, pastures, and trees on my land , all actively storing carbon, are invisible in the data. The result? A narrative designed to vilify the very people who feed and steward the planet. It’s time to challenge the false arithmetic of carbon accounting and restore scientific integrity to how we measure nature’s cycles. Farmers aren’t the problem. They’re part of the solution. ~Farmtheory

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Neil Preece @nmapreece

12 months ago

@hazel_hpc @AnnaLongthorp A combined age of 30 years from two of our lads. No whip cracking, they just want to do it. Would you rather them lounging in bed or up to no good on social media or experimenting with unknown unknowns?

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No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods

a year ago

The University of Nebraska has called out the misleading narrative on cow burps & methane on climate change: “They have not accounted for the capture part, they only account for methane being released. Carbon capture in soil and grass - helped out by cow grazing and manure - can far outweigh the emissions from cattle. Grasslands can take up more CO2 and carbon in the soil and plants, that offsets the CO2 that cattle are producing but it also offsets the methane.”

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Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley

a year ago

Too often we hear that grazing ruminants are the worst part of our food system, when in reality they can be the best, delivering for diet, climate & nature. We need a more honest conversation about cows. scribehound.com/countryside/li…

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No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods

a year ago

“The biggest lie in the world right now is that cows are killing the planet. At the core of that lie is how methane is calculated.”

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Jeremy Squirrell @Jes_Squirrell

a year ago

A thread 🧵 for @rachelreeves and @Keir_Starmer We are a family farm in Mid Suffolk, growing combinable crops and producing free range eggs. Back during the last Labour government we were struggling to make decent margins, so we explored alternative income streams and diversify

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GB News @GBNEWS

a year ago

'Farms are not personal possessions, they are working capital.' Organiser at Save British Farming, Oli Fletcher says the Government's decision to tax the working capital of farmers is 'to throw a spanner in the spokes of the economy'.

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No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods

2 years ago

Farmer Andrew Wright discusses Bovaer and methane inhibitors: “Possibly the dumbest way to reduce methane ever…they make zero factual sense. The fact they have got this far tells me that there must be a lot of money involved.”

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Anna Longthorp @AnnaLongthorp

3 years ago

Go Dad!!! 💪👊 Most inspirational man I know&so proud I get to call him “Dad”💙 Couldn’t wish for a better male role model for Richard Longthorp Jnr 1000 press-ups EVERY DAY thru JAN. You know what to do 👇👇 @ParkinsonsUK @miketindall13 @theJeremyVine gofundme.com/f/pressups-for…