Research on Brexit, Agriculture and Online Politics

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
You could always ask Farmyspu to do your paperwork for you;).I think he is down your way.

I don't know him, but plenty have gone down the route of employing advisers and consultants. It's a slippery slope IMO. They get you over a barrel and next thing you can't manage without them and the fees keep on rising. I like to do my own records and paperwork as then I know what's going on. I do the statutory minimum but even then takes a considerable amount of my time.
 
I shall be very much surprised if the Nitrate regulations are dismantled or watered down. Nitrate pollution is a key environmental issue and I expect the government will continue with regulatory controls. I stand to be corrected and you can return to this comment of mine in about five or six years if the NVZ rules are scrapped or substantially reduced.

I hope for your sake you are correct or you maybe disappointed. Hey ho.


If Nitrates & Phosphates were a "Key environmental issue" then sewerage works wouldn't release raw sewerage into rivers with no penalty.

I also know that the local SSSI & SAC, which is the highest environmental grade for water courses ... has phosphate pollution at source from ex coal mines. On top of this our local sewerage plant on the SSSI & SAC is over capacity.

Nothing done about those problems.

Yet agriculture receives the jack boot of regulation.

I think you might well be correct if Gove remains in his ministerial position ... unless Farmers & their families react by not voting Conservative or better still forming political groupings we'll remain under the jack boot.
 
Very pleased to see a researcher being as open as you have been. The short answer is that farming itself will carry on pretty much as before, and probably improving in fits and starts too. Some movement will be made to fit in with different markets' requirements. Sub's similar to CAP will go; any shortfall in pockets from the loss of such sub's will be made up for by 'rewards' for environmentally friendly farming - one would have to be very naïve to think it mere coincidence that Michael Gove now holds his current office.

I voted to leave the EU and have no regrets; I regard the doom-saying as just that. I think some short term difficulties are inevitable, but we will come out all the stronger economically and - although this personally political rather than strictly agricultural - we will have full national sovereignty again. That last point is why a huge number of people voted to leave, including many farmers, don't discount it in your research.

If you want to study the exchange in this forum properly, you will have to begin by looking at the threads about Brexit that were begun before the referendum. It will be a lot of work and there is a fair amount of vitriol to sift through, but there were some good discussions and points made. Perhaps the most interesting part of your research will be to see if and how individuals' attitudes and thoughts have changed as events have come to pass.

Good luck with your research, work hard, have fun and concentrate when you must. Best of British!

Hi Danllan

Thank you for your recent comments and words of encouragement! Would mind answering some further questions in a private conversation?

The transition from subsidy to environmental stewardship is something I would like to focus on throughout my research. In addition, I agree that questions of sovereignty must take a central position and I would greatly appreciate any further insights.

Cheers!
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
Hi Danllan

Thank you for your recent comments and words of encouragement! Would mind answering some further questions in a private conversation?

The transition from subsidy to environmental stewardship is something I would like to focus on throughout my research. In addition, I agree that questions of sovereignty must take a central position and I would greatly appreciate any further insights.

Cheers!
No problem, PM me, I'm in for lunch so can write now.
 
Dear TFF members

My name is Eliot Jones, I am from Dorset, England. I obtained a first class BSc in International Agriculture from Greenwich University in 2016. I am now undertaking an MSC at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. I am currently beginning research for my thesis and am now reaching out to you to request your participation.

I am interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the Brexit debate in relation to both the agricultural community and online social media platforms. This forum presents a very interesting case for political exchange within a demographic that has a significant stake in the outcome of upcoming negotiations with the EU. In my own extensive research of the best and most academic attempts at assessing EU and UK CAP reform and their diagnosis for the future, I have failed to find any political motivation for or against Brexit.

The landslide of British farmers voting to leave the EU, some estimate as high as 70%, has indicated a severe dissatisfaction with the current means of governance. In the 15 months since the referendum, however, this has not been reflected by UK policymakers.

It is my objective to study the way in which TFF members espouse their political preferences regarding post-Brexit agriculture. Once finished, I intend to collect and produce a list of recommendations based on my findings.

I will conduct this research with total anonymity; all participants will be treated with the utmost confidentiality and no personal information of any kind will be made public. This research is meant for me to complete my MSc degree at Wageningen University only, and will not be published. I am very willing, however, to share the results with you and the forum.

Therefore, considering the article presented below, I would like to hear how you envision farming after Brexit, good or bad, and without strong objection from the community, I will begin to study the exchange within this forum.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/17/brexit-farming-reform-uk-agriculture-cap

Thank you for your time

Eliot Jones

(Graduate Researcher)

Dear TFF members,

I hope you are all keeping well and maintaining your discussion in what are some very unusual times for all!

Since finishing my study on TFF, I have completed my MSC at Wageningen and have started a PhD at the University of Nottingham looking at the interactions between food, agriculture and computer science.

I have recently been offered the opportunity to put together an academic publication based on the data gathered in my previous project and I am writing to you now to ask for your permission and participation. I would like to use information gathered on public threads as evidence to describe the sentiment among British farmers regarding the Brexit debate. In addition, I would like to gain the community's permission to continue my presence as a researcher, potentially gathering more data to compliment my previous findings and offer an opt-out for any that desire it.

If I have interviewed you directly in the past, I will be in touch again soon.

Participants will not undergo anything that exceeds minimal risk, where the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the proposed research are not greater, in and of themselves, than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine physical or psychological examination or tests.

If the publication is successful, all measures will be taken to maintain the anonymity of participants. Quotations will either be taken directly or paraphrased based on the permission of the participant. The data will then be made public for at least ten years in accordance with ESPRC regulation.

You may withdraw from the study at any time and do not have to give reasons for why you no longer want to take part. If you wish to withdraw please contact me. If you receive no response from the researcher please contact the School of Computer Science’s Ethics Committee.

If you wish to file a complaint or exercise your rights you can contact the Ethics Committee at the following address: [email protected]

Thank you for your time

Eliot Jones

(Graduate Researcher)
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.0%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 35.1%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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