Rising input costs, falling output prices, and the expectation that we should just pump out produce from the goodness of our hearts; the economic version of 'self abuse'.
Media organisations who (mostly) don't understand the many nuanced reasons for us doing what we do, and instead print any old crap from ill informed urban f**kwits under the guise of them wearing the fancy dress of a 'pressure group'.
Impending shortage of capable staff. Lots of young pretenders wanting the easy work ("I don't do any overtime on Thursdays, thats Chinese night"), but it's getting harder to find characterful grafters.
Needless paperwork: such as RT & SQC demanding 'Mass Balance' calculations to appease the EU, or having to test slug pellet spreaders on their 5th birthday. They can stick all those pointless jobsworth hoops up their own hoops, x 1000.
The new necessity that we need to employ progressively more professionals to do jobs that either didn't exist or are now part of new legislation. Land agents for 'environmental' applications, letting agents to oversee electrical reports and salmonella checks on cottage lets and all of the attendant leases and paperwork etc etc, Solicitors to slow down any simple process while they feather their nest, and accountants to oversee mandatory employee staff pension schemes that lose 15% of their value year on year while the pension fund legally robs you of 2% commission for doing an utterly shite job. A FTSE 100 tracker typically outperforms these sharp suited pricks.
And 'businesses' that seek to offer farmers 'solutions to a problem' we don't actually have, for an exorbitant fee, @dilahdan
There are more, many more, but I think you get the point.
Media organisations who (mostly) don't understand the many nuanced reasons for us doing what we do, and instead print any old crap from ill informed urban f**kwits under the guise of them wearing the fancy dress of a 'pressure group'.
Impending shortage of capable staff. Lots of young pretenders wanting the easy work ("I don't do any overtime on Thursdays, thats Chinese night"), but it's getting harder to find characterful grafters.
Needless paperwork: such as RT & SQC demanding 'Mass Balance' calculations to appease the EU, or having to test slug pellet spreaders on their 5th birthday. They can stick all those pointless jobsworth hoops up their own hoops, x 1000.
The new necessity that we need to employ progressively more professionals to do jobs that either didn't exist or are now part of new legislation. Land agents for 'environmental' applications, letting agents to oversee electrical reports and salmonella checks on cottage lets and all of the attendant leases and paperwork etc etc, Solicitors to slow down any simple process while they feather their nest, and accountants to oversee mandatory employee staff pension schemes that lose 15% of their value year on year while the pension fund legally robs you of 2% commission for doing an utterly shite job. A FTSE 100 tracker typically outperforms these sharp suited pricks.
And 'businesses' that seek to offer farmers 'solutions to a problem' we don't actually have, for an exorbitant fee, @dilahdan
There are more, many more, but I think you get the point.
