Recent content by Austin7

That depends where you start from. Good washed stockfeed delivered London £360 a ton, our best ( not that good ) £680. Best of the best, not ours, £800. Toss a coin where next, you might argue that the slack has been taken up by the bagged up stockfeed sales and that actually planting is not...

I see Spudman 123 is a livestock farmer, he is obviously after stockfeed. This year's prices are "good" only because they are what they need to be every year.

My customers seem to think that our potatoes are way too expensive. So with a little time last week, during a rare shower, I looked up the data the Office of National Statistics website where they show the monthly retail value of ordinary white potatoes and also the RPI. I charted the inflation...

We are about to submit one wreck for formal Pre Application Advice. It was an interesting building, a Dovecote. I went back 400 years traced its history through Estate & Tithe plans and also 80 years of photographs. Google historic development guidelines in Historic England, National Planning...

Less than a year into her Presidency, without any prior democratic consultation, Minette committed English Agriculture to Net Zero. Just 30 days before the NFU had responded to the Committee on Climate Change using these exact words: “There are no ‘silver bullets’ to deliver a net-zero-...

If "supporting the NFU is no longer constructive" what should farmers do? No doubt BFU provides an outlet for anger and frustrations of many but is it in the best collective interests of the dwindling number of farmers. BFU is draining the NFU of potential active membership. We will end up...

Cows are innocent , sheep also

For the avoidance of doubt about my position, it is that if ever there was an example where the precautionary principle applies it is climate change. Real or not real we all have a view, but doing nothing is clearly not an option. The issue with the NFU's position is they have laid out...

Sadly Minette has got herself in a corner, so much political capital has been placed on Net Zero and so automatically support for the RT Green Module" it is difficult to see a way out. Our chance to get back to reality can only come with the new President. The NFU are not ignorant of the...

Remember all this was 20 years ago, things will probably be different now. One thing won't have changed however, the NFU Council is the boss what it says goes. However the fundamentals don't change, effective democratic change in the NFU is totally dependent on getting the channels of...

It is interesting that everyone came to the conclusion that staff doctored the MME reforms of 2002. I suspect what actually happen was that the Councils elders who enjoyed the London lifestyle put pressure on David Quayle then treasurer to water down our report, Ben was off sick. If you travel...

Most of us in the group complained. Ben's reply answers your question as to who was really in charge then, I suspect not much has changed: 1. Contrary to what is stated in the Alan Roberts notes neither I nor any of the officeholder team have been involved in such an iterative process to...

The conclusion is therefore that the NFU is currently not fit for purpose. This is nothing new. When Richard Watson Jones probably the youngest ever Office holder tragically died of a brain tumour in 2000 he left undone his work on the reform of the NFU. Ben Gill set up a group called Meeting...

Yes, I do blame the "active" NFU members. If they don't do their homework and don't organise themselves and don't protest in the real world outside this forum then what happens is the NFU, AHDB and RT apologists get a free ride as what seems to have happened at the Norfolk AGM this week. This...

That is outrageous. He can't possibly believe what he is saying. What hope is there for a sensible outcome when the chairman is so blinkered. Surely he was put right by the NFU Members.