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hendrebc

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Livestock Farmer
I’m going to take loads of these following their guidance and have a file of them to show any inspector. That’s how their minds work
Good idea. Make sure they are obvious where they are I've got some of here and I struggle to tell exactly where they are sometimes because things change so much throughout the year. Not sure you can tag a picture to a location somehow. Someone cleverer than me probably can.
Assume the inspector is dumb and you'll have to explain it to them like they are a child. Don't give them an excuse to doubt you.
 
It isn’t a moral conundrum. It’s alienating our current customers in exchange for selling to a different customer where the outcome has no future

There are some that do think it is a moral conundrum. They feel it is their moral duty to grow food. It isnt. Surely a customer is a customer and you sell to those that pay the best?! As and when it all end/changes you just go back to selling to someone else. Are you telling me if a fresh man came in to the store ring upsetting the regulars and outbidding them for your stores for a few sales you would feel duty bound to go to the regulars and offer yours privately because its all likely to end in tears for the new man after a while? You'd take the uplift in prices while he was there and go back to the regulars buying them when he's gone. The fact it's the government paying me rather than a grain merchant offering me bugger all for wheat makes little odds.
 
Good idea. Make sure they are obvious where they are I've got some of here and I struggle to tell exactly where they are sometimes because things change so much throughout the year. Not sure you can tag a picture to a location somehow. Someone cleverer than me probably can.
Assume the inspector is dumb and you'll have to explain it to them like they are a child. Don't give them an excuse to doubt you.
Have some sort of “landmark” in them, tree, pole, building, gate etc
 
The spit has an engine on and I have a banksman
 

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There are some that do think it is a moral conundrum. They feel it is their moral duty to grow food. It isnt. Surely a customer is a customer and you sell to those that pay the best?! As and when it all end/changes you just go back to selling to someone else. Are you telling me if a fresh man came in to the store ring upsetting the regulars and outbidding them for your stores for a few sales you would feel duty bound to go to the regulars and offer yours privately because its all likely to end in tears for the new man after a while? You'd take the uplift in prices while he was there and go back to the regulars buying them when he's gone. The fact it's the government paying me rather than a grain merchant offering me bugger all for wheat makes little odds.
The way I’ve always looked at the subsidies were that I had a moral obligation to produce. There’s never been any argument that what we have claimed in subs has been worked for. I think that’s where it all goes wrong when various folks claim for things that aren’t intended for. Look at what’s happened in the past with various subsidies and who’s claimed for them, bps and slipper farmers or NT and Utilities and such like. They are the bad examples of how money is spent.
Sfi doesn’t really give a return for the next person as such the money just stops.
You say you will revert back to your regulars when this stops but will they be there? Will they buy off you if they are? They will either be out of business or getting it from elsewhere.
 

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