lloyd
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- Herefordshire
Well you've got to pay something for killing all your wildlife.
Australia Free Trade Deal?
- Thread starter Johnnyboxer
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Well you've got to pay something for killing all your wildlife.
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- Bay of Plenty NZ
We tend to shoot ours for free.
Bozo’s head would look good on a front end loader, probably world beating!
lloyd
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- Herefordshire
Dont be so modest how about an aerial drop of 1080?
Nothing against New Zealander’s been there & seen the good life in the promised land, if only I was 30 years younger I’d be on the plane tomorrow!
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- Bay of Plenty NZ
Fairly cheap for the results we get.
Seeing as how miserable the ex pats are on here, I wouldn't bother.......
Just their warped sense of humour.
lloyd
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- Herefordshire
Good job your allowed to do things on the cheap then.
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- Bay of Plenty NZ
Yes isn’t it wonderful. Happy days.
Courier
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- Limousin
Anyone seen any details on the deal. If I remember correctly, in the proposed trade deal with the USA, they wished to maximise their beef quota with Sirloin as apparently it was worth double in the UK compared to the USA, but they had no real interest in shipping grinding beef as there was no margin. Would this be a similar call for Australian beef I wonder. 
Courier
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Aus and NZ also need migrant Labour for their fruit & veg harvests.
NZers coming to UK will not be to pick fruit…
NZers coming to UK will not be to pick fruit…
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Exactly it’s impossible, socialism is as close as you get but that is good in theory but in practise fails miserably .
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- Northumberland
The silly woman wants trussing up,so she cant do any more damage.
PercyBlakeney
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Worth pointing out that we do currently import around 270,000t of beef already. Aus beef (esp. at the moment) is no cheaper than the beef that we are currently importing. As @cows sh#t me to tears pointed out, trade happens on economics, not because Aus farmers would want to 'flood' the market. I'd be highly surprised actually if Aus came anywhere close to the quota that has been proposed - they already have access to the UK and EU markets through (relatively small) quotas and don't fully fill them now. I'm not saying there won't be an effect, there will, but Aus is just one in a line of new trade agreements the govt. is going to sign, yes there will be increased competition but it will also improve market access to millions of new consumers.
I'd happily try Aus beef to be honest, as I'm sure it'll be pretty tasty and (unless there is a significant change to UK food safety laws) it won't contain any hormones, just like all the beef that Aus currently ships to a number of markets that prohibits the sale of beef treated with hormones (Like the EU!). But also, just the same as I like that French consumers eat our lamb, Chinese and Japanese consumers eat our pork and US consumers enjoy eating our cheeses etc.
I think beef and sheep farmers have much more to fear from our own domestic environmental policy (as misguided as it may be around beef and lamb) in terms of the threat to continuing viable livestock businesses. As a family of farmers and butchers, who market all our produce direct to consumer, I'm confident that demand will remain strong going forward, esp with increased awareness of local supply chains etc that covid has seemed to increase the importance of. While not everyone, or hardly anyone can do this, there is plenty of commitment by UK retailers towards stocking British beef, I don't think that is going to change anytime soon.
I'd happily try Aus beef to be honest, as I'm sure it'll be pretty tasty and (unless there is a significant change to UK food safety laws) it won't contain any hormones, just like all the beef that Aus currently ships to a number of markets that prohibits the sale of beef treated with hormones (Like the EU!). But also, just the same as I like that French consumers eat our lamb, Chinese and Japanese consumers eat our pork and US consumers enjoy eating our cheeses etc.
I think beef and sheep farmers have much more to fear from our own domestic environmental policy (as misguided as it may be around beef and lamb) in terms of the threat to continuing viable livestock businesses. As a family of farmers and butchers, who market all our produce direct to consumer, I'm confident that demand will remain strong going forward, esp with increased awareness of local supply chains etc that covid has seemed to increase the importance of. While not everyone, or hardly anyone can do this, there is plenty of commitment by UK retailers towards stocking British beef, I don't think that is going to change anytime soon.
Hang on,sucklers are not that profitable but environment schemes could be.
Answer,sell the cows and take the cheque with no work and buy foreign steak in the supermarket……sounds like a plan.
Answer,sell the cows and take the cheque with no work and buy foreign steak in the supermarket……sounds like a plan.
Remainers can't see the wood from the trees , mainly because their heads are stuck up their arses .
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Blackford embarrassing himself and Scotland in commons again today , when he says Boris talks tripe it confirms that Boris talks sense to me.
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- Bay of Plenty NZ
Was it Australian tripe?