Clarkson on the nail again?

jendan

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Whatever anyone writes for a newspaper or any publication, it has to pass the editor(s) and the their legal team. Sometimes you stride a very fine line. But keep it factual and backed up with truthful facts not a wish / whinge list, and always end on a joke - and you won't go far wrong.

I gave my editors indigestion for almost 20 years. ;)

I think JC and Kaleb have done a brilliant job for UK Agriculture.
Are you still writing now?
 

Bury the Trash

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He's a columnist , popular and has wide reach. Not a fan of Top Gear during his tenure, it certainly became very formulaic but my word his net worth soared

If he's paid to write for a National Newspaper, he's a columnist, I'm not even saying I agree with what he writes. I bet off camera he's pretty incisive now with a few years under his belt farming when it comes to financial and operational decisions. He'll be well advised but somehow I don't think JC or Kaleb are the straw chewers their media presence portrays
Aamoi is the next series of farm progs. on prime yet or not finished making ?
 

PostHarvest

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But is the infrastructure still there to be able to transport it?
Thats the major issue. Over the last 20 years there has been major investment in grain storage facilities in the producing areas and also at the ports. Several competing grain terminals have been built at Mykolaiv port alone. Odessa port can load out two 70,000 ton ships simultaneously and others aren't far behind. Several of the ports are under Russian control and so all exports are having to be sent to Romania by train and then loaded onto ships. Its slower and more costly.
 

Pilatus

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Thats the major issue. Over the last 20 years there has been major investment in grain storage facilities in the producing areas and also at the ports. Several competing grain terminals have been built at Mykolaiv port alone. Odessa port can load out two 70,000 ton ships simultaneously and others aren't far behind. Several of the ports are under Russian control and so all exports are having to be sent to Romania by train and then loaded onto ships. Its slower and more costly.
The fact the the railway gauge in Ukraine is the Russian gauge 1.520mm whereas European railway inner gauge is 1.435mm certainly doesn’t make exporting from the Ukraine by rail very easy. :banghead: (n)
 

Bury the Trash

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good bit of telly hopefully.
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Cowabunga

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Clarkson is a commentator. He is paid to put forward his view on the world as he sees it, to articulate his observations in a way most of us cannot, to an audience most of us could only dream of. Commentators are not there to offer solutions, they commentate on the situation as is. Its for policy makers to decide, commentators can and do help steer the national discourse.

I don't see many positive proposals, apart from your self identified prophecies on ELMS. Clever you. I used to really value your contributions on here but lately your unhinged, constant and seemingly pathological farmer bashing has become tiresome. If you can't stand us all so much and find our whinging so intolerable, maybe its time to go back to the commune and bodge a basket or something.
I got the measure of him/her in their first few posts on the forum. Having said that, I do agree with some of the points made, especially about farmers criticising other farmer’s farming methods [as long as they aren’t complete muppets of course].
 
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Cowabunga

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No you actually have a food production crisis if people want to eat as they are at present. I’m quite happy if people don’t eat all the broccoli and beans they buy from the supermarkets but in the long term people will work it out. Cheap food has allowed people to eat too much and waste too much. Expensive food will make people think a bit more and the end result will be reduced demand. Obviously it’s not a good thing if people in the third world go hungry because grain prices are too high because the west still needs it to feed KFC chickens. Too many people are whining about the Government in the UK not doing anything what do people suggest they should do? Announce that food is running out. That’ll end well I don’t think.
Actually most of the grain that is fed to animals does not make the human food grade and the land on which it is grown is seldom capable of growing human food grade cereals. Otherwise everyone would be growing and selling milling and malting grade cereals.
 

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