Farming Protest Event

Chris F

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Hammerwich
I am thinking a Farming Protest should be organised at a farm based on the new Agriculture bill and the fact that Jamie Oliver and NFU have done a great job getting nearly a million signatures for food standards.

We could also have beer, a band and a ploughing match. Just an idea ;)

@Guy Smith could give a speech! (free beer for speakers)
 

delilah

Member
all petitions seem pretty meaningless really

comfort blankets to help people feel they are doing “something”

Is it what the yoof call 'woke' ?

Petitions in themselves may well be meaningless, but if they are intended to show that you have a handle on what is needed to move your industry forward, then their wording is important.
The wording of a petition needs to pass the SMART test. The NFU petition fails miserably to do so.
 
The thing is, these protests we are seeing at the moment are only going on and getting so much traction because lots of people are turning up. They’re turning up because they’re bored and also getting frustrated and fed up, so feelings run high. And that is in no way belittling the root of the protests, which was horrendous.

But lots of people with nothing better to do attend and cause trouble. The devil makes work for idle hands.

We don’t have idle hands and I’m not sure many would turn up unless you happen to hold the protests at the end of a wet week between milkings.

I remember years ago there were riots in Coventry. They started midweek and got very busy over the weekend. I was driving trucks in the area at the time and there were areas we wouldn’t deliver to. It was generally well know that the Wednesday night was going to be a big one. Huge protests planned and whilst they thought they were causing damage to the north end of the city, they actually did millions of pounds of improvements. ??
But on Wednesday afternoon it started to rain, becoming heavy by teatime.
Nobody turned up. It seemed the cause was not worth putting on a coat for.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 79 42.7%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 64 34.6%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.2%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

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

    Votes: 6 3.2%

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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