Michael Gove and the Conservatives did this.

[DrWazzock]

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is.


At the next election when I go into the polling station I’ll remember this.

 

[robs1]

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is.

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Are labour going to bring it back or ban imports ?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Watch the latest Harry's farm, he touches on break crops and food security.

But the NFU were on the food security committee that wrote the report (he was talking about the recent food security report by Dimbleby). I noticed Minette Batters was part of the committee.

 

[farmerm]

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is.

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Well you are not wrong but I very much doubt the alternative would have done anything differently.

 

[DrWazzock]

Well you are not wrong but I very much doubt the alternative would have done anything differently.

So what’s the point of voting Conservative?

 

[richard hammond]

Destroyed OSR as a reliable break crop in the U.K. while welcoming in imports grown using chemicals they banned here on the flimsiest of evidence for populist reasons. If that isn’t duplicitous then I don’t know what is.

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Who wants to grow the mucky stuff any way, is the government of the day to blame or does some of the blame sit with farmers growing the b.loody stuff to often in the rotation?? (because it was a reliable break crop!) I know we all like to blame the ban of Neonics, was /is that the real problem, I personally do not think so as they were becoming inefficient in the control of our foes!!!
Any way its worth bugger all today so why grow it??

 

[DrWazzock]

They are still using neonics in many European countries including Ukraine which also happens to be the biggest producer of honey in Europe. Go figure.

 

[Bury the Trash]

but they seem to favour sugar beet ?

 

[farmerm]

So what’s the point of voting Conservative?

For fear that incredibly, despite the almost unlimited faults with the current conservatives lot, the alternative still look like a worse bet!

 

[Top Tip.]

While agreeing with you, I fear that a vote for the conservatives will be wasted this time as they have absolutely blown their brains out with their policies and behaviour.

 

[yellow belly]

the alternative will ban neo nics on sugar beet and ban the only control of tb in wild life

cereal farmers need cattle farmers

 

[yellow belly]

While agreeing with you, I fear that a vote for the conservatives will be wasted this time as they have absolutely blown their brains out with their policies and behaviour.

if labour have too big a majority they will be unstopable
just as the snp and welsh labour are

too long in power is a problem for any country or council

 

[DrWazzock]

Well I reckon with their blanket ban on onshore wind turbines and OSR destruction they’ve cost me £30k a year on a 200 acre farm. How much worse could it get?
It’s alright though. They’ll save me a couple of thousand stamp duty should I wish to buy a house. Whoo hoo!

 

[DrWazzock]

We’ve a badger problem here. Tell me what the Conservatives will allow me to do about it. Nothing is the answer. So might as well vote for anybody else. Can’t spread manure in the autumn, can’t apply urea after end of March. Why don’t they come out with it and just say they want to ban farming rather than do it by a thousand cuts?

 

[richard hammond]

Well I reckon with their blanket ban on onshore wind turbines and OSR destruction they’ve cost me £30k a year on a 200 acre farm. How much worse could it get?
It’s alright though. They’ll save me a couple of thousand stamp duty should I wish to buy a house. Whoo hoo!

On shore turbines are a different matter to the destruction of OSR!! or have a missed a point here?

 

[DrWazzock]

On shore turbines are a different matter to the destruction of OSR!! or have a missed a point here?

It’s all part of the same problem. They said they had our backs, but time after time they prove to be very unreliable friends. I can’t think of one positive thing they’ve done for farming unless you consider SFI to be farming which I dont and which looks more like throwing us 20p for a cuppa as our once great industry lies in the gutter.
Sorry, but having battled to save my OSR and now watching the plants that had looked promising keeling over due to larvae chewing their way right through the stems I’ve absolutely no patience at all with those who rule us. At every election the Tories rattle the tub and farmers run to it but no, not this time. Not this farmer.

 

[DrWazzock]

Anyway rant over. But I just feel completely abandoned and unrepresented politically. All of this will come home to roost nationally eventually but of course they’ll be away with knighthoods and pensions by then.
Won’t post no more about it. Off my chest.

 

[serf]

So what’s the point of voting Conservative?

There is no point because the
" conservatives " have been hijacked by lefty liberals and untill they get back to Norman Tebbit mindset what's the point ...

You couldn't make it up , it's as if they are all a plant

 

[richard hammond]

It’s all part of the same problem. They said they had our backs, but time after time they prove to be very unreliable friends. I can’t think of one positive thing they’ve done for farming unless you consider SFI to be farming which I dont and which looks more like throwing us 20p for a cuppa as our once great industry lies in the gutter.
Sorry, but having battled to save my OSR and now watching the plants that had looked promising keeling over due to larvae chewing their way right through the stems I’ve absolutely no patience at all with those who rule us. At every election the Tories rattle the tub and farmers run to it but no, not this time. Not this farmer.

surely the writing has been on the wall for OSR for a couple of years so why keep trying? I do agree the powers to be do not give a toss!!

 

[willyorkshire]

surely the writing has been on the wall for OSR for a couple of years so why keep trying? I do agree the powers to be do not give a toss!!

There are some good crops about. Few and far between, yes, but it is still (just) possible to grow it. And, in mordern parlance, it's incredibly bad for you mentle 'elf.