🚨🚂 The intensive production of 1.1 billion chickens a year is a runaway train, that risks turning more of our rivers into dead zones

We have reached peak poultry - and large agribusiness is to blame

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Joe Stanley 🇺🇦 Makes Jack Thompson's investigation into fried chicken shops for Wicked Leeks all the more prescient. Several of them bought from one supplier, which imported from Poland. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/falli…

“We don’t operate kneejerk, stopgap measures at Riverford – if a supplier has issues with harvest shortfalls or poor quality due to factors out of their control, we don’t cut ties and go off to find someone to replace them.' New on Wicked Leeks

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'To me, the whole thing feels like a colossal failure of narrative. What the Welsh government is suggesting seems pretty reasonable.' Writes Harriet Bell, Regenerative Farming Lead Riverford. 🌳

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As emergency authorisation is granted for sugar beet farmers to use banned pesticides, growers need a realistic plan to transition to more nature-friendly methods. 🐝

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📢 TELL UK GOVERNMENTS - no new intensive poultry units! #StopKillingOurRivers

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💩 Pollution from industrial chicken production is killing the #RiverWye . If we don’t act now, it could suffer total ecological collapse - and your local river could be next.

Save the bees? Neonicotinoid U-turn is no fault of farmers

As emergency authorisation is granted for sugar beet farmers to use banned pesticides, growers need a realistic plan to transition to more nature-friendly methods.

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'The Conservatives have traditionally taken the rural vote for granted. If you painted a sheep blue, most farmers would have voted for it. But polls now suggest the previously unthinkable: a huge swing putting Labour ahead in rural areas.'⬇️
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“For true food security, the government must bolster the Sustainable Farming Incentives with a bold vision for resilient farming, following the lead set by organic and agroecological farmers who are using truly sustainable and regenerative approaches.' 🚜
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“Farmers of all types need to stand together with all who eat food and call out supermarkets for their role in driving down food prices while making impossible contractual demands on farmers.'
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With farming on its knees, an ambitious nationwide exhibition spotlights the tireless work of the UK's regenerative food producers.📸
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This Monday, Riverford headed to the Houses of Parliament to see their #GetFairAboutFarming petition championed by MPs across all three major political parties. Here's what happened. ⬇️
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We’re in London to see the #GetFairAboutFarming petition debated in parliament. Riverford have also installed 49 scarecrows to represent the 49% of farmers who fear closure in the next year, citing supermarket buying practices as a leading cause.

My mood has been buoyed by attending the Oxford Real Farming Conference; a gathering of farmers, campaigners & latter-day diggers & levellers, who all dream of shaping a better world by farming, trading & eating better. Writes Guy Singh-Watson. ⬇️
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A little article I was featured in, in Wicked Leeks Riverford a couple of years ago. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/how-t…

Next up it’s Wicked Leeks: It’s time to get fair about farming. Looking forward to the discussion from Will White Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 Riverford on the Grocery Supply Code of Practice and fairness in the supply chain

'49% of farmers fear going out of business within 12 months, many citing supermarket behaviour.' Chair and new editor of Wicked Leeks This Conscious Being outlines research to kick off panel on fairness in farming. #ORFC24

What is no-dig? Wicked Leeks talks to no-dig expert Charles Dowding to find out more in this video. #nodig #gardening wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/films/what-is-…

There is a rational argument that concentrating farming on fewer, more intensively farmed acres releases the rest of the land for rewilding and carbon sequestration, writes Guy Singh-Watson.
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Banana growers navigate huge challenges during storm season in the Dominican Republic, making the arrival of Dominican bananas in our fruit bowls a remarkable feat. 🍌⬇️
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