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Hilly · May 19, 2022

devonbeef said:
Little things like that repeated over the country help, but yes we need a voice hence why BFU , but trouble with that is we are all running around like headless chickens with too much to do and to little time , to run the union, including me.

Agree , it wouldnt surprises me if bfu gains traction it gets bought off .

Northern territory · May 19, 2022

Northeastfarmer said:
And this is why no youngsters will make it into farming unless they are handed a farm from family.
The government are so brain dead when it comes to sustainable food production it’s unreal. They deserve everything they get

It’s a disgrace, ill thought out policy once again. These big estates will just take it all back. Death duties sorted them out once upon a time, can’t see it happening again

Hilly · May 19, 2022

Northern territory said:
It’s a disgrace, ill thought out policy once again. These big estates will just take it all back. Death duties sorted them out once upon a time, can’t see it happening again

No death dutys on trees thats why the likes of terry wogan was into buying forests.

livestock 1 · May 19, 2022

Hilly said:
The costs are going to suck the life out the job in boris nee high wage economy , high wages and high fuel costs make life very very uncomfortable .

I always said the minimum wage was a really bad idea. How can someone tell any business how they value labour? Knocked everything sideways

Hilly · May 19, 2022

livestock 1 said:
I always said the minimum wage was a really bad idea. How can someone tell any business how they value labour? Knocked everything sideways

Yes your right , Tony Blair strikes again ! .

Boydvalley · May 19, 2022

Post Brexit Britain means moving away from cheap labour to a high efficiency economy where businesses invest in technology more than labour. We are in the painful period of adjustment which is why the recent jobs show were more vacancies than unemployed. Covid has concentrated peoples minds and I know 2 businesses that are now doing more business with less than half their pre Brexit staff.

Dairy, Arable and poultry have been able to invest and improve greatly. Pigs have been squeezed and unfortunately beef and sheep have nowhere to run in this brave new world.
These schemes taking some of this hard working ground out of production probably is only speeding up a process that is going to happen anyway. Obviously some ground will taken out that shouldn’t but that’s the nature of these things.

Going to be some hard decisions coming up and I include myself in that.

livestock 1 · May 19, 2022

Hilly said:
Yes your right , Tony Blair strikes again ! .

Wiped a lot of the poorest paid jobs out and put those folks on the dole plus the businesses with them. Stupid feckers but it sounded good I suppose that’s all that matters

livestock 1 · May 19, 2022

Boydvalley said:
Post Brexit Britain means moving away from cheap labour to a high efficiency economy where businesses invest in technology more than labour. We are in the painful period of adjustment which is why the recent jobs show were more vacancies than unemployed. Covid has concentrated peoples minds and I know 2 businesses that are now doing more business with less than half their pre Brexit staff.

Dairy, Arable and poultry have been able to invest and improve greatly. Pigs have been squeezed and unfortunately beef and sheep have nowhere to run in this brave new world.
These schemes taking some of this hard working ground out of production probably is only speeding up a process that is going to happen anyway. Obviously some ground will taken out that shouldn’t but that’s the nature of these things.

Going to be some hard decisions coming up and I include myself in that.

When was this cheap labour available?? I can’t remember any. When I started my business my staff were better paid than I was and someone from the government told me what I had to pay

Northeastfarmer · May 19, 2022

Boydvalley said:
Post Brexit Britain means moving away from cheap labour to a high efficiency economy where businesses invest in technology more than labour. We are in the painful period of adjustment which is

That will do unemployment the world of good…

Northern territory · May 19, 2022

Boydvalley said:
Post Brexit Britain means moving away from cheap labour to a high efficiency economy where businesses invest in technology more than labour. We are in the painful period of adjustment which is why the recent jobs show were more vacancies than unemployed. Covid has concentrated peoples minds and I know 2 businesses that are now doing more business with less than half their pre Brexit staff.

Dairy, Arable and poultry have been able to invest and improve greatly. Pigs have been squeezed and unfortunately beef and sheep have nowhere to run in this brave new world.
These schemes taking some of this hard working ground out of production probably is only speeding up a process that is going to happen anyway. Obviously some ground will taken out that shouldn’t but that’s the nature of these things.

Going to be some hard decisions coming up and I include myself in that.

Poultry doesn’t look that great. The trouble with making things less labour intensive is it leads to overproduction.

aangus · May 19, 2022

Northeastfarmer said:
And this is why no youngsters will make it into farming unless they are handed a farm from family.
The government are so brain dead when it comes to sustainable food production it’s unreal. They deserve everything they get

Thats the problem with a government with such a large majority

livestock 1 · May 19, 2022

Northern territory said:
Poultry doesn’t look that great. The trouble with making things less labour intensive is it leads to overproduction.

Sounds like poultry is struggling along with pigs even worse

Hilly · May 19, 2022

Boydvalley said:
Post Brexit Britain means moving away from cheap labour to a high efficiency economy where businesses invest in technology more than labour. We are in the painful period of adjustment which is why the recent jobs show were more vacancies than unemployed. Covid has concentrated peoples minds and I know 2 businesses that are now doing more business with less than half their pre Brexit staff.

Dairy, Arable and poultry have been able to invest and improve greatly. Pigs have been squeezed and unfortunately beef and sheep have nowhere to run in this brave new world.
These schemes taking some of this hard working ground out of production probably is only speeding up a process that is going to happen anyway. Obviously some ground will taken out that shouldn’t but that’s the nature of these things.

Going to be some hard decisions coming up and I include myself in

Boydvalley said:
Post Brexit Britain means moving away from cheap labour to a high efficiency economy where businesses invest in technology more than labour. We are in the painful period of adjustment which is why the recent jobs show were more vacancies than unemployed. Covid has concentrated peoples minds and I know 2 businesses that are now doing more business with less than half their pre Brexit staff.

Dairy, Arable and poultry have been able to invest and improve greatly. Pigs have been squeezed and unfortunately beef and sheep have nowhere to run in this brave new world.
These schemes taking some of this hard working ground out of production probably is only speeding up a process that is going to happen anyway. Obviously some ground will taken out that shouldn’t but that’s the nature of these things.

Going to be some hard decisions coming up and I include myself in that.

sounds a right bundle of joy ,, not , we been lead by idiots.

Full of bull(s) · May 19, 2022

Northeastfarmer said:
That will do unemployment the world of good…

Exactly. A growing population in the country exacerbated by immigration, and technology/minimum wage enabling/forcing business to employ less people, equals more unemployed and less working to pay for it, combined with big business escaping their share of taxation by whatever means they can. It can only go one way, but as with everything as long as the inevitable isn’t in the current 5 year term of Government they don’t care, just keep kicking the can down the road with sound bytes and borrowing more. I think the end is nigh though now, COVID has kicked the can into a dead end

Hilly · May 19, 2022

Full of bull(s) said:
Exactly. A growing population in the country exacerbated by immigration, and technology/minimum wage enabling/forcing business to employ less people, equals more unemployed and less working to pay for it, combined with big business escaping their share of taxation by whatever means they can. It can only go one way, but as with everything as long as the inevitable isn’t in the current 5 year term of Government they don’t care, just keep kicking the can down the road with sound bytes and borrowing more. I think the end is nigh though now, COVID has kicked the can into a dead end

They say they are just going tongive folk an allowance to stop at home and do nothing , id say they already do to an extent . …. We are well down the road …

lloyd · May 19, 2022

Hilly said:
sounds a right bundle of joy ,, not , we been lead by idiots.

Then do something about it and vote differently!

Hilly · May 19, 2022

Hilly said:
Pigs are a classic example , you cant make money out of pigs anymore but the largest slaughter house kills so many a day …. The head bummer is on 250k a year ! But the producers are going bust ! It fikimg stinks

It was a pig farmer who told me his relative is on 250k a year running slaughthouse 9-5 5 days week , mean while hes grafting 7 days and going
bankrupt, im sure he had a tear in his eye and walked away mid sentence ….

Northern territory · May 19, 2022

Hilly said:
They say they are just going tongive folk an allowance to stop at home and do nothing , id say they already do to an extent . …. We are well down the road …

Trouble with that idea is it will never be enough

Hilly · May 19, 2022

lloyd said:
Then do something about it and vote differently!

I refuse to humor anyof them with a vote now im done ! They are all as bad as each other .

Hilly · May 19, 2022

Northern territory said:
Trouble with that idea is it will never be enough

We are their the benefit lot always screaming for more .

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