'Cutting the cloth'

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
Being serious now Why should we cut our cloth to produce cheap food for the masses?

Do you think many of them are going without to benefit someone else?

Fudge them. We should be charging more. The %age consumer spend on food is tiny compared to other countries.

They also throw a large amount of it in the bin.
 
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Bald Rick

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Being serious now Why should we cut our cloth to produce cheap food for the masses?

Do you think many of them are going without to benefit someone else?

Fudge them. We should be charging more. The %age consumer spend on food is tiny compared to other countries.

They also throw a large amount of it in the bin.

I wonder what the poorer percentage of the population will be forced to give up - Food or heating?
If it's the former, what will they give up?

TBH it disgusts me that we have to have food banks in this country. AND it will only get worse now


As to cutting cloth to suit, well it's foolish not to adapt your business constantly.
 

Dman2

Member
Location
Durham, UK
Seriously though
Do cash flow forecasts and stick to them as much as possible
Try and reduce costs, or increase payment terms. It all helps cash flow.
We were advised years ago to spend a week every year trying to reduce costs by 10% and up till now we have managed it, to a certain extent
Don`t think we will this year mind you. but have made enough savings over past few years to carry us through a few bad years
 

Dman2

Member
Location
Durham, UK
I wonder what the poorer percentage of the population will be forced to give up - Food or heating?
If it's the former, what will they give up?

TBH it disgusts me that we have to have food banks in this country. AND it will only get worse now


As to cutting cloth to suit, well it's foolish not to adapt your business constantly.
How many people going to food banks have fancy Iphones paying £40+ a month for contracts
Have Sky telly paying £40+ a month
Wear NIke trainers??
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
How many people going to food banks have fancy Iphones paying £40+ a month for contracts
Have Sky telly paying £40+ a month
Wear NIke trainers??

Sure there will be a few but the vast majority are on their knees.

Proud of that?

This report from the Trussell Trust - researched over 3 years - is very salutary

https://www.trusselltrust.org/state-of-hunger/
 

No wot

Member
Being serious now Why should we cut our cloth to produce cheap food for the masses?

Do you think many of them are going without to benefit someone else?

Fudge them. We should be charging more. The %age consumer spend on food is tiny compared to other countries.

They also throw a large amount of it in the bin.
Food has been too cheap for far to long , the one problem with Capitalism is that the price a business can Charge is under pinned by his competitors and in agriculture's case , it's cheap inferior imports that this Government are hell bent on securing that will cancel out any price increase's , let's hope this Ukrainian episode makes them value UK food security
 

Jackov Altraids

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
'Cutting the cloth' does give the impression we need to reduce our extravagancies' when I'm not sure many farming businesses could afford any before.
It is definitely a time to recalculate and reconsider every aspect of your business in the light of so many changes and risks.

There will be more fortunes made and lost in the next few years than have happened for decades.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Carry on as usual. 1980's tractors & gear. FSS. Bare minimum of fert & chems. No borrowing. All repairs to machinery / bulidings/ house done by myself. Racking my brain how to do without Red Tractor, which is a serious drain.
I don't think 90% on here would know how to cut cloth, even if they were sent off on a training course to get certificates to use scissors and cloth licences.
 

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