Duchy of Cornwall

and gradually make that transition because there's lots of factors at play as to why people don't transition immediately to organic regenerative farming.

If we were bringing in tenancies like Duchy of Cornwall is bringing in, you know, that all farmers now have to have a regenerative aspect to their tenancy agreements, then we're slowly seeing those things happen.

We've seen agroforestry massively across lots of different types of farming systems, but that's still... environmental outcome that's in lots of different farming systems so i think we meet people where your feet are and we lower our inputs as we go through and some people that lower their inputs to a point where they're ready to convert to being regenerative organic or not necessarily organic within their status but those kind of non-chemical farming bases means that we can move people further up that line and i think we just need to be really careful of like not making people feel others because then we're never going to make that systemic change moving further forward

Farming has come on a long way.

You know, you've got to say, because he's got a big portfolio, so people want to see it, which he's got to do.

But at the other hand, he's also got to run, be part of the Duchy of Cornwall or other things that he's involved in.

And that does, you know, that is when you put the hard yards in behind the scenes to make sure that when you're going out there and being involved in things, they actually do have... something positive at the end of it.

He's not someone, as we've said before, who just wants to cut a ribbon and then sugar off.

and in a way you talk about the good work that the um Duke of Edinburgh's done

and

going out there, his work in having a positive vibe around the people who his tenants or whatever around the Duchy of Cornwall is also a very important part of his PR and the positive vibe and people saying, God, he's working hard, he's helping us, as we saw when he went down to Dartmoor and other things.

It's not without its trials and tribulations.

Elsewhere, a fairer note on William because this program tries to keep itself honest.

His Duchy of Cornwall is selling the Bradninch estate in Devon and tenants, some of whom have farmed there for five generations, say they've been given six months to buy their homes or leave, with one describing the offer as the opportunity to go into generational debt.

And another, a lifelong royalist, putting it more bluntly, Charles was fantastic.

William could go to hell.

This is a story that came from The Observer.

There was also a social media video that was making the rounds in which tenant farmers on the Brandnage estate in Devon are protesting the Duchy of Cornwall's efforts to raise money by essentially evicting them and selling and redeveloping their farms.

Now, obviously, more goes into it than just that.

The Observer gets in extensive detail about the circumstances here.

Not my monarchy.

It's like a bit of both, right? And at one point, one of the people speaking in this article says he treats it like a private estate when it suits him and public entity when it suits him.

So this is part of William's ongoing plan to sell a fifth of the Duchy of Cornwall off in order to focus on five geographic heartlands in the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Bath, and Kennington, South London.

The chief executive of the Duchy, Will Bax, the one that says William texts him on weekends and he loves it, says the Prince of Wales has decided the Duchy should not just exist to own land, it should first and foremost exist to have a positive impact on the world.

With the school's half-term break now begun, the family are due to have time together over Halloween and bonfire night.

William's decision to sell the Duchy of Cornwall's brand-niche estate has left tenants facing a choice between buying their homes and farms or leaving, with some saying they cannot possibly afford to stay.

According to the Observer, nine farming tenants and a similar number of residential tenants are affected by the sale of the 3,000-acre Devon estate.

Some families have farmed there for five generations, and tenants say notices have given them six months to buy or leave.

This is your Farming in 5 daily news update from Farmer's Guardian.

In today's episode of Farming in 5, the Duchy of Cornwall defends tenant action as backlash against Prince William Estate sell-off grows and CO2 pig stunning is to be phased out as the government seeks more humane slaughter methods.

Now the Duchy of Cornwall has been forced to defend its sale of the Bradninch estate in Devon after Prince William was accused of disregarding tenants in a Sunday newspaper.

The 52,000 hectare estate near Exeter has been part of the Duchy since 1337 but in March of this year it was announced the land was set to be sold to raise money for what the Prince sees as other priorities including homelessness and climate change.

Reporting on that news, Farmers Guardian heard from residents, tenant farmers and local councillors who all expressed their disappointment that the estate was set to broken up.

One of the residents, Mary Wrighton, told reporters, "...people draw attention to the irony of Prince William talking about his concern for mental health and for homelessness, while at the same time very badly affecting the mental health of people who live and work here." and potentially making families homeless.

She added, There were also claims tenants had been told by previous Dutchie agents they would be allowed to stay for as long as they wanted to, but were then told that the land was going up for sale for whatever price and that if they did not or could not pay the asking price they would be served an eviction notice.

Issuing a statement, a Duchy of Cornwall spokesperson said, The spokesperson continued, while around two-thirds of residential tenants are considering the same option.

And they just opened a new creamery down there.

And Prince Charles, who was the Duchy of Cornwall, was all scheduled to open it so they said could you come down work with a couple of schools and then we'll do a show you know for his highness so we did you know and there he is presented him with this ukulele and he's his face is just fantastic you know i might have to i might have to add did he did he

give it a go did he try and play

it yeah If you give me one second.