Question for Minette

Jerry · Jan 15, 2019

I’ve been invited to a small local meeting with Minette Batters. Think there will be another 10 farmers there plus a couple of local senior NFU officials.

A mix of arable/livestock/mixed farmers. We pretty much all know each and are local to each other.

Its a 90 minute meeting with no formal agenda, just an open table meeting where we can ask questions.

Meeting is 31st of Jan.

If you had one question for her that you could ask direct what would it be?

delilah · Jan 15, 2019

"Why are the NFU failing so abysmally to get themselves on mainstream media and put the case for livestock as part of a sustainable food economy with regards the vegan bandwagon ?"

Cab-over Pete · Jan 15, 2019

Why do dogs always do silent trumps?

7610 super q · Jan 15, 2019

Why hasn't she gone round to GUTH's house, and given him a slap ?

gone up the hill · Jan 15, 2019

7610 super q said:
Why hasn't she gone round to GUTH's house, and given him a slap ?

egbert · Jan 15, 2019

When we're already maintaining a world beating cattle ID system (really, we are), why on earth would the NFU jump headlong into bed with DEFRA to develop some techno bollix we didn't ask for?
(you can ask, although her answers will be off pat...she loves the idea, as it'll all be so simple using your shiny reader and smart phone, with full signal, without grumpy suckler cows smacking reader/phone/you against the rails. The rain won't be howling past your face, the porridge won't be splattered over the gadget screen -or into its innards. Everything will be roses...in that fabled place where my farming doesn't seem to happen, but apparently hers does)

ollie989898 · Jan 15, 2019

When are they going to lobby parliament to call for all statutory bodies to be funded by subscription only rather than mandatory levies?

Henarar · Jan 15, 2019

7610 super q said:
Why hasn't she gone round to GUTH's house, and given him a slap ?

because he would enjoy it

ollie989898 · Jan 15, 2019

Henarar said:
because he would enjoy it

Does the argument come before or after?

Henarar · Jan 15, 2019

why is she not calling out the board brush claim that cattle and sheep farming is damaging the environment for the bollox that it is

Henarar · Jan 15, 2019

ollie989898 said:
Does the argument come before or after?

he would enjoy that to

Beames · Jan 15, 2019

When is the NFU actually going to stand up for farmers? We are blamed for every environmental problem going and now the vegan bandwagon is being shoved in our face’s, but the nfu are no where to be seen.

Grass And Grain · Jan 15, 2019

Why does the NFU support farm assurance and the requirement for feed mills to only take FA grain, whilst the same mill can use imported non-assured GM soya in the same feed ration.

And what will she do about it?

TomD · Jan 15, 2019

Ask her what's her favourite dinosaur?

gone up the hill · Jan 15, 2019

Grass And Grain said:
Why does the NFU support farm assurance and the requirement for feed mills to only take FA grain, whilst the same mill can use imported non-assured GM soya in the same feed ration.

And what will she do about it?

She will do nothing about it because she is very pro adding extra costs/red tape on farmers that our competitors don't have to endure.

Wilkster · Jan 15, 2019

Grass And Grain said:
Why does the NFU support farm assurance and the requirement for feed mills to only take FA grain, whilst the same mill can use imported non-assured GM soya in the same feed ration.

And what will she do about it?

Good luck with that. When Grandad was chair of the local NFU, they tried to get a motion through to stop the use of meat & bonemeal in cattle feed. This was way before BSE but London (as it was then) wouldn’t entertain it as they were in the pockets of the feed manufacturers.

Grass And Grain · Jan 15, 2019

gone up the hill said:
She will do nothing about it because she is very pro adding extra costs/red tape on farmers that our competitors don't have to endure.

Wilkster said:
Good luck with that. When Grandad was chair of the local NFU, they tried to get a motion through to stop the use of meat & bonemeal in cattle feed. This was way before BSE but London (as it was then) wouldn’t entertain it as they were in the pockets of the feed manufacturers.

It shouldn't take a genius to work out that if the NFU did something about this issue, then they may get lots of new (supportive) members.

Every farmer, without exception, that i speak to, is sick to the back teeth of added cost and regulation whilst mills, food factories and retailers import non-assured produce. It's complete nonsense, and needs to be addressed.

gone up the hill · Jan 15, 2019

Grass And Grain said:
It shouldn't take a genius to work out that if the NFU did something about this issue, then they may get lots of new (supportive) members.

Every farmer, without exception, that i speak to, is sick to the back teeth of added cost and regulation whilst mills, food factories and retailers import non-assured produce. It's complete nonsense, and needs to be addressed.

NFU bigwigs like Minette claim that all the farmers they talk to are fully behind RT/ extra paperwork/ EID tagging etc etc.

Which of course the ones they talk to are because they run small focus groups where you are only invited to join if you already agree with the NFU big wigs agenda and will support what they want to introduce. ( basically yes people )

AHDB also run the above type focus groups.

From what i have been told the NFU are recently losing members at a bigger rate of knots than any time in the past.

primmiemoo · Jan 15, 2019

When will the Fifth Quarter be promoted as well across GB as it is at this very moment in the Rome Unpacked programme currently on BBC Four?

Those two cheerful men, Giorgio Locatelli and Andrew Graham-Dixon have just enthused mightily about deliciously cooked offals as street food in Rome.

gone up the hill · Jan 15, 2019

My question to Minette would be...

Given that you are doing a worse job as NFU president than May is as UK prime minister then when are you going to resign Minette?

( of course im not thinking about Minettes answer to the serious fodder/ grass shortage last summer when Minette told Gove it could all be sorted out if farmers could apply for licences to buy/sell water to each other

you really couldn't make it up! )

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