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If you where to write a short piece on progress in farming its effect on communities and life itself how would it read ?
If you where to write a short piece on progress in farming its effect on communities and life itself how would it read ?
If you where to write a short piece on progress in farming its effect on communities and life itself how would it read ?
No.Has anyone read Small is Beautiful by Dr Schumacher.
2 Centuries of doom and gloom. Except for 30 odd years after WW2.
Imports from abroad. Bulk tank collections in the mid 70's finished off small milking herds on 20-40 acre holdings. Quotas in 1984. Mass land grab when subs introduced in the 90's/ 00's. Mechanisation leading to job loses. Supermarket domination . Pushy button tractors. Rules/ regs/ red tape.
Progress. What progress?
Nothing very exiting is going to happen in agriculture till prices increase....a lot.
Has anyone read Small is Beautiful by Dr Schumacher.
it was a fast readNo.
Is that what you say to the wife
Call me a communist but I've often wondered about setting up a "community venture" where volunteers can come and grow and harvest the spuds. Plenty of people about here with part time jobs, semi retired etc who could do it. Would be an interesting experiment. Volunteers could invest their cash in shares in the venture to pay for the inputs then share the produce or profits from sales amongst themselves. I'd be happy to trouser the basic payment as a rent for the plot as its paid by the taxpayers anyway. My mate at a university near here is running these schemes quite successfully getting inner city people involved with quite good results.
A kibbutz?
@DrWazzock I am not sure if you have been writing tongue in cheek or not. Not meaning this in a derogatory way, but such ventures only seem to work while the TV cameras are there and anyone not 'pulling their weight' can be named and shamed. @Purli R is not entirely right, there are in fact many selfless people out there who work for entirely altruistic reasons, but there are at least as many again who are willing to take advantage of them. I laud your idealism but don't think it realistic in terms of achieving anything other than creating a new way of meeting fairly like-minded people.