What is the biggest problem you're facing? And what if solved would make everything easier?
The biggest problem in farming, currently is?
- Thread starter J.Farminvest
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- Location
- Fife
Secure access to land
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
While prices of everything seem to go up, calf prices have dropped.
Could manage if they just stayed the same.
And time......never enough of it
Could manage if they just stayed the same.
And time......never enough of it
put a bit too much English mustard on me Wiltshire Ham sandwich 
, spread a bit less on next time Volatility - of everything, weather, inputs, the lot.
That and cashflow - everything has rocketed in price, folk want more money and paid quicker, whereas farming largely being a long season (obvs less so dairy & pigs) means we can have money laid out for spud inputs for a year before delivering the crop, then have to wait 60days more to get paid!!! For what may be a negative margin. Crazy
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Arrogance.
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
same problem that all business have...meaningless over zealous jobsworths with petty rules/regulations
SHOOT THE FEKIN LOT OF UM
bitta rant ...sorry....plus can't spell beauracrat
SHOOT THE FEKIN LOT OF UM
bitta rant ...sorry....plus can't spell beauracrat
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Politicians.
- Location
- Limousin, France
All of the above-mentioned plus... NFU = red tractor etc!!
- Location
- Wiltshire
Today planning officers
Rest of the time probably cash flow,
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Rest of the time probably cash flow,
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- Location
- Ceredigion
Docks
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Secure access to land as stated earlier.
knackered fences that are not my responsibility.
P.s., this could be the first of many posts.
knackered fences that are not my responsibility.
P.s., this could be the first of many posts.
Castle Farm
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I have been involved in Agriculture and Horticulture nearly all my working life. (over 60 years)
Those involved in Agriculture/Farming seem to have lost the respect of some people in our country, mainly due to the attention seeking F in halfwits who have never tried and found how gut busting farming can be. Supermarkets are partly to blame, giving Joe public only the best and wasting thousands of tons of veg every year which could be sold. Perhaps this coming winter there will be shortages and higher prices and as an industry we need someone to stand up and tell the public how it is..In my lifetime as yet no body has.
Those involved in Agriculture/Farming seem to have lost the respect of some people in our country, mainly due to the attention seeking F in halfwits who have never tried and found how gut busting farming can be. Supermarkets are partly to blame, giving Joe public only the best and wasting thousands of tons of veg every year which could be sold. Perhaps this coming winter there will be shortages and higher prices and as an industry we need someone to stand up and tell the public how it is..In my lifetime as yet no body has.
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
as in the plant?....or as in good place to meet sailors?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
If your into meeting sailors then I wouldn’t have thought docks would be a problem really.as in the plant?....or as in good place to meet sailors?
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
apart from personal issues, the biggest problem I think the industry faces, is, the fact that nearly all the food that is eaten comes via 10 multinational companies, who are determined to keep their market share (and profits), even when it is at the expense of the public's health (causing us to eat too much ultra processed food, sugar and seed oils) and the fact that the "powers that be" want to destroy the independent farmers (who tend to be self reliant and free thinking) and replace us with the multinational companies, you only have to look at what is happening in Holland or NZ for that matter.
- Location
- Ceredigion
The plantas in the plant?....or as in good place to meet sailors?
over the last 2 years my aim as been to distress my life ,
So if the only thing I have to worry about is Docks I'm going in the right direction, we all know stress is one of the big 5 killers so I'm finally trying to practice what I preach