- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Hare here !(Wincing as I type Pete, tongue firmly in cheek)
Actually, it would be *Their…
Capital letter and all that. Couldn’t resist.
To many of them forrin knobheads with opinions, they can sodoff
The best farmers are not farming as we know it
- Thread starter willy
- Start date
To many of them forrin knobheads with opinions, they can sodoff
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Jobs are great, no rule anywhere that says the land has to pay for all our wants and needs
I've got no cat in this fight, as I no longer own a house or any land, just some cows, furnishings, tools and toys
However I do like as many income streams as possible, rental properties were great until that dice got too loaded in favour of tenants.
Shares. Stocks and bonds. Whatever grows
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Yes, but back then the British Empire probably controlled the bulk of banana growing land in the world
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
wouldn’t know ?
fat lambs here are worth big money & Australian fine wool is considered the best in the world by the Italian fashion industry, so I’m not sure where you get your information ?
tbh, when I lived in the UK, I always preferred NZ lamb to UK
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
well…
i would prefer if you didn‘t tell posters to « jog along ». For one thing it’s rude and secondly, some of us might find the posts interesting.
Merci beaucoup
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
You obviously really hate the uk .wouldn’t know ?
fat lambs here are worth big money & Australian fine wool is considered the best in the world by the Italian fashion industry, so I’m not sure where you get your information ?
tbh, when I lived in the UK, I always preferred NZ lamb to UK
maybe in the UK ?
SERIOUS money to be made from agriculture elsewhere in the world, why do you think there are massive private / family & corporate farms out there ?
do UK “hobby” ( your words, NOT mine ) farmers actually “feed the world” ?
considering the UK itself is dependent on imports for a large proportion of its consumption ?
sorry, but I think “feeding the world” is mostly done by North America, South America, Eastern Europe, Australasia ( including NZ ), China & India . . . Even with the various challenges of extreme weather, climates, logistics or politics . . .
again, sorry - but you lot aren’t “feeding the world”, so don’t kid yourselves that you are
the countries that actually ARE feeding the world, agriculture is BIG business
that is the difference
sorry
^^ the truth
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Dose not take a rocket scientist to work it out Clive .
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
I appreciate the point you make with this picture, but unlike the great Faces album, « Every picture tells a story », it doesn’t… there are probably more cars on 1 mile of the M25 than the whole of the Sahara desert and Greenland put together
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livestock 1
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Feeding the world? Over the years I’ve sent a lot of lambs for export I would say the vast majority of what I’ve sold went for export. They didn’t feed anybody here.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
All our bulls go to Italy. I quite like the idea of them being prepared in posh Milan restaurant‘s
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livestock 1
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I would say the agricultural production in this country at this present time could be doubled if things were shining a bit more in all sorts of ways in a years time I would say tripled because a lot are cutting back
Feeding the world as in the people of the world is done by anyone growing/producing food, could be someone with a veg patch or window box for that matter.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
true its not as much money as it sounds these days, in the past you could retire like a lotto winner with that much
lloyd
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- Herefordshire
The Australian wheat crop is forecast at 26mmt with an average predicted yield of
0.8t acre hardly worth getting out of bed for and certainly no saviour of world hunger.
0.8t acre hardly worth getting out of bed for and certainly no saviour of world hunger.
Fair enough
In my defense the poster I directed that comment at was being rather derogatory about British agriculture, but perhaps I ought to let that by and welcome the diversity of opinion so as not to upset anyone
Gracias
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Why worry looks like they can't grow a good spud either.
The UK grows about 4x the amount of tons.
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Exactly correct. There are some ego’s on here that seem to think their country is soo much better than little old England. We all play our part from Bangladesh to Bolivia. And in every one of our country’s we should be proud of the food we produce and should not be ashamed to want a good price.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Nothing much is sweeter than that
still get a kick out of growing veg and meat for my people.One thing I don't worry about anymore are potatoes, Dad used to have half the garden in spuds but it seems like such a waste of space when you could grow more "expensive" bits and pieces instead.
As it turns out most of the crew would rather not have spuds and eat more meat which is fine by me, the more they eat the more meat I get to cut up
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
No worries our premium product is appreciated by the biggest spenderswouldn’t know ?
fat lambs here are worth big money & Australian fine wool is considered the best in the world by the Italian fashion industry, so I’m not sure where you get your information ?
tbh, when I lived in the UK, I always preferred NZ lamb to UK
we're not trying to compete with cheap lager and bucket chicken.