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- Bay of Plenty NZ
Free movement of people between NZ and UK is a pipe dream of the CANZUK brigade wanting to live in the past "glorious" days of Empire, never going to happen!
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- Thread starter Johnnyboxer
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Average field size 4 acres surrounded by earth bank hedges that have to be trimmed fenced & maintained, not allowed by laws to remove a single metre of such, what’s your average field size?
No but we have millions of migrants just looking for sunnier climates!
Yep this free movement thing, pipe dream, never work
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Free movement , can some one define that , I thought it was ? More bloody brits in kiwi land than enough and plenty kiwis here so where is the problem ?
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Oh yes we forgot NZ farmers were only allowed to mass poison
certain TB spreading animals.
I'm now off to start up my light aircraft for some 1080
drops I hope nobody minds.
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Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Which rules and regs are holding you back ?
- Location
- Limousin
Oh yes we forgot NZ farmers were only allowed to mass poison
certain TB spreading animals.
I'm now off to start up my light aircraft for some 1080
drops I hope nobody minds.
One of things I wanted to get away from was the British obsession with rules and regulations, with its army of busybodies always interfering in your life and just get on with farming.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
It would be nice to rid this country of the hypocrisy of the few.
Telling you how to lead your life while doing the exact opposite themselves.
Not a question of holding anyone back, it’s a question of your annual production costs in comparison to competitors overseas, for instance TB testing & standstills, hedge maintenance, RT rules & regs if we are going to compete with the rest of the world it needs to be on an equal production cost basis. Saying the customer will pay more for UK produced food is bull sh!t !
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I see .
Won't work even if they do go they tend to come on TFF and still tell you what you should be doing
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Do you lot think that we can compete with Asian wages and conditions in ag as well? Did the world end? No. Do we export to Asian countries? Yes.
Some of you are running scared.... not all. But some.
Some of you are running scared.... not all. But some.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
I dare say the ones moaning the most are the ones being propped up by the public purse. Those that see opportunity or nothing to fear will be the ones that survive AND prosper.
All anyone needs is a level playing field, you wouldn’t expect one eyed Aussie cricketers to compete with two eyed Brits, of course the Aussies still might win but that’s not the point!
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Do we have a level playing field with any Asian country? Yet we still trade with them. No offence , but grow up. You'll survive.
Asian beef & lamb flooding your market already is it?
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
No ones running scared as it's obvious you cant compete
on many things including animal welfare as post #812 demonstrates.
That doesn't mean we have to put up with double standards by our
elected government though.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Do you think that's all Australia grows?
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Ok ok. So you want same standards, same rules. Fine. YOU start paying all Australian farmers a subsidy based on land owned then. Your idea. YOU pay it.