Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
This guy!?
- Thread starter Jimfandango
- Start date
I did the same when I read the headline! But it is not actually about re wilding. Seems to me to be about farming in a more ecologically friendly and beneficial way. Rather than just pumping inputs and making other people rich.
You think what is a good idea @Robt ?
What they are thinking of doing to the poorer parts of the farm rather than intensive farming. Thats how i have read it? Am i wrong?
This particular line. If this is what they are planning then, yes i agree it is a good idea.
“not stopping farming, it’s fitting farming systems into natural systems so we can restore biodiversity”
Sorry I replied before you answered my question! Yes, in principle the idea is a nice one, minus bison and lynx. However, if you knew they state of the Somerleyton estate and how it was managed, suddenly in reality, it doesn't seem all that great. I don't fancy following directions from a snob of a landowner who distances himself reality and keep his own estate in order.
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
I guess this is the same Somerleyton Estate who had a tenant farming regenerativly, into diversity etc etc and has served notice to that tenant?
Which tenant do you mean @Tim G? PM me if you like.
- Location
- Shropshire
I don’t understand the whole “farmers shouldn’t drive nice cars or go on holiday nonsense. It’s ridiculous.
I was driving through town yesterday and a nurse in uniform pulled onto the roundabout in front of me driving a brand new Range Rover Velar. My thoughts were a) nice car, fair play. B) nurses must earn a decent wage as that’s a nicer car than mine.
My thoughts weren’t bloody nurses driving round in range rovers and going on holiday!
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
I've pmd, although the tenant was quite rightly vocal about it!
- Location
- South Molton
£450/month
Easy come easy go!
What annoys me is when farmers, with large amounts of inherited land claim they can’t farm without subsidies. But still have 3 kids at boarding school and all the range rovers etc. It’s like that stuff is a good given right and doesn’t even emerge their minds. I’ve heard it an an nfu meeting. Unreal.
- Location
- Shropshire
That’s true although it’s also true that every industry receives subsidies or benefits of some kind, so I don’t think farmers should be ashamed of subsidies. It should be capped though, that’s for certain.
Pieces_of_Eight
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Would this have been a very different article if it had been written in the Telegraph instead of the Guardian?
I'm not suggesting that the leftards at the Guardian have hijacked the landowners' intentions...
I'm not suggesting that the leftards at the Guardian have hijacked the landowners' intentions...
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
wanton dwarf
Member
That's a personal point of view.
If you are farming for food and not farming efficiently then by definition you have to use more land than necessary to produce the food you need.
That excess land use could have been used soley for wildlife.
But that doesn't fit the agenda does it ?