Andrew Meredith
Editor at Farmers Weekly
Editor of @farmersweekly Former dep business editor, arable reporter, farmer. Got a story? DMs open.
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2 weeks ago |
fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith
“You can have as many people and as much money as you want, as long as we don’t run out of food,” read the text message that flashed up on the mobile phone of Minette Batters. Not the mandate she was given from Steve Reed as she starts her new job as Defra’s consultant on farm profitability, but the message from a panicking minister to the then NFU president in the early days of Covid.
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2 weeks ago |
fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith
Kaleb Cooper (left) and Jeremy Clarkson © Freuds Welcome back to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. First, here’s your markets (opens as PDF) with another slippage for old season lambs. Prices are well behind the extreme highs of last year when Easter and Ramadan overlapped. Now, on with the show.
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3 weeks ago |
fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith
Donald Trump © Associated-Press/Alamy Stock Photo “Walk softly and carry a big stick” was how former US president Theodore Roosevelt summarised his approach to foreign policy. “Shout loudly and flail wildly with a revolver and a golf club” is more the style of the current occupant of the White House, president Donald Trump.
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1 month ago |
fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith
Welcome back to This Week in Farming, your one-stop shop for the best Farmers Weekly content from the past seven days. But first here’s your markets (opens as PDF). In short: everything’s gone sideways except beef, which charges on again. Now, on with the show. SFI closure latestLast week’s surprise closure of England’s Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) was Defra not simply upsetting the apple cart, but blowing it up, said NFU president Tom Bradshaw, following a meeting with ministers this week.
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1 month ago |
fwi.co.uk | Andrew Meredith
Since Defra’s decision to pull up the drawbridge on the Sustainable Farming Incentive last week, thoughts among some of you have been turning to what this may mean for the future of farm support – and indeed farming in general. This is only natural since we have very little idea what a future English environmental scheme will look like, what size budget it will have, and when it may or may not be open for business.
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Take no pleasure in this but it's never been clear in a cheap food nation with some of the highest energy and construction costs in the world how it was viable
Major vertical farm operator Jones Food Company has appointed administrators, with 61 staff made redundant 🥬 https://t.co/5mNaysPdDZ
“You can have as many people and as much money as you want, as long as we don’t run out of food,” was the message to then NFU president @Minette_Batters in Covid. For my editorial this week, I muse on what her message back to Defra might be in 2025: https://t.co/BR3okCXZGe
Can someone explain to me why England was relatively good at planting broadleaf woodland in the nineties and noughties? https://t.co/xsjmIRhO3K
