The coming famine

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
With fertiliser doubled in price, and possibly unavailable worldwide in 2022 due to factory closures, it doesnt bode well for harvest 2022
Add in the senseless tree planting on arable land and clearance of hill sheep for trees, the loss of pigs to landfill, we could be facing a major shortage of foodstuffs💀 twelve months from now.☠️☠️
 

delilah

Member
Remember hearing a farmer/ aid worker years ago, as he put it "No-one ever starved with a dollar in their hand". For the developing world, lifting people out of poverty is the key. For us in the west, if we have to spend more of that dollar on food, then probably a good thing.
 
Conspiracy warning.....

I have an inkling most of these troubles are manufactured, no idea who by or what for but a lot of it appears to be China vs the western world.

I don't think strong and relatively stable governments around the world will allow food to become an issue

But we have a world beating buffon at the head of our 'strong and relatively stable government', who thinks all food on the shelves is beamed there by Tescopoly. In other words, it can be sourced from wherever in the world it may be cheaper.

So food is an issue, and a very big one, especially if it isn't there.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
"Organic farming will never feed the world" I keep getting thrown at me.

So come on you conventional guys, do your duty, your job is to feed the world......at any cost. 🙄
Norman Borlaug and Borlaugs Hypothesis suggest that organic traditional pre ‘green revolution’ farming would have starved a billion more people to death by the year 2000, and have been responsible for converting an additional 800,000 ha of land around the world from ‘natural’ land into farmland.

Pandora’s box has been opened, there’s no going back to the supposed ‘organic idyll’ without global famine, ‘civil’ disorder and a death on a scale the planet has yet to see.
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Norman Borlaug and Borlaugs Hypothesis suggest that organic traditional pre ‘green revolution’ farming would have starved a billion more people to death by the year 2000, and have been responsible for converting an additional 800,000 ha of land around the world from ‘natural’ land into farmland.

Pandora’s box has been opened, there’s no going back to the supposed ‘organic idyll’ without global famine, ‘civil’ disorder and a death on a scale the planet has yet to see.
So instead of a complete carpet of nature and farming hand in hand it's all been compartmentalised. It's either nature or farming no compromise.

Less biodiversity, less hedges, less trees.

This farm is more productive than when we were using fertiliser.
Everyday is a school day!
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
But we have a world beating buffon at the head of our 'strong and relatively stable government', who thinks all food on the shelves is beamed there by Tescopoly. In other words, it can be sourced from wherever in the world it may be cheaper.

So food is an issue, and a very big one, especially if it isn't there.
Not an issue yet is it? Could be an issue maybe but I very much doubt it will happen for most of us.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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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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