Agriculture

  • Exposed: Anti-farmer activists

    In an exclusive for ConservativeNewsSite.com, a Facebook profile named “Marx Mark” is operated by a small group that targets members of the agricultural community across the UK.

    Haphazard campaigns

    The group sit behind a single profile in particular, but are responsible for posting memes, comments, and posts through other profiles at different times and in coordination with each other.

    A screenshot from Facebook

    In particular, their main profile has featured references to the dairy company Arla, which also has sought court backing to restrict protests at its premises, in response to unrestrained protests.

    Mixed messages

    The group are responsible for mixing messages in their activity, making claims of sexual abuse against senior members in the agricultural community in different parts of the UK.

    Lurid claims made on social media

    While this behaviour has been witnessed, it’s also needful to say it takes place in farm courtyards, is sent in person in hand-written notes through letter boxes, and shouted out in town centres.

  • A farm tax infowar

    In a post on X, the National Farmers Union has suggested a proposed family farm tax will affect 75%, not 27%, of working farms in the UK.

    @NFUtweets – X

    Meanwhile, the government has communicated their intention to use the tax as a way to target wealthy landowners to fix public services.

    However, it’s a state of affairs caused by cabinet ministers and their public servants, and not by any private landowner.

    @UKLabour – X

    This type of reasoning suggests mismanagement is corrected by creating – or raising – taxes, and not by fixing the rotten processes at the heart of government.

  • Farmers get out and fight

  • What is farming worth these days?

    The sight of Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon Prime (season one, for me) is something to behold, considering what we know about farming in the UK.

    It’s not often that a positive image of a farm is found through a medium such as television. It doesn’t present well because of the mud and the grit, perhaps. We’re used to seeing that in more military surrounds, and not in the backwoods of the Cotswold’s.

    Yet, Jeremy Clarkson – a well-known television presenter and journalist in the UK – has turned his fortunes around after an ailing Top Gear stint to prove that farming is still relevant, even in rural areas.

    The sight of Diddly Squat Farm is more of a miracle, than a feature, of the English countryside.

    In that, farming shops do ok, but they’re not a booming business as much as fancy bread shops in a center of town or even the artisanal section of a supermarket.

    A farm is what it is; muddy, dirty, and tough work. It looks it. Yet, it’s also a vital part of our food provision. It’s what we need, after all, for a healthy and sustainable diet.

    I like farming culture as well. It looks fanciful for me to try it, but the attitude and the awareness farmers tend to have toward conservation – and yes, even climate change – is a noble feature of it.

    In our history, nobility often retreated to the countryside to think more sager thoughts, and it would appear we have others today who seek to do the same thing, if to make a few quid off it, as well.