Was it just me - maybe it was - but was Peter Kendall in a bit of a bad mood today?
Have a look at the Farmers Guardian debate and judge for yourself.
Peter seemed very keen to have a go at me and the RSPB whatever I said.
And how predictable to see NFU mouthpiece Guy Smith going back to criticising the FBI - there is precious little acceptance, by the NFU President or by Guy Smith, that there is a problem with farmland birds. The NFU's attitude to the environment may be summed up by Peter Kendall's phrase 'wrapping (farmers) in green tape'. Remember please, NFU, that's the taxpayers' money you get and so there do have to be some rules attached to it.
But very good to see lots of good comments - many I guess from farmers who are working closely with the RSPB in all sorts of ways.
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A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
All this about N F U is just confusing the issue,individual farmers quite capable of making decisions about wildlife on their own or with friends and discussion groups they have.Everyone should be on the same side and if that means all sides taking a softer stance then so be it,all this acrimonious debating and articles does wildlife no favours at all.Think it would be better not to have these debates if they just bring up the big differences that just get the moderates on all sides back up.