glasshouse
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- lothians
On now
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Bbc news now ,the wheat shortage
- Thread starter glasshouse
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Boveyfarmer
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Don’t worry, food comes from a supermarket, farmers just block roads with big tractors and stop people wandering arround in the countryside!
At least some rape has made it through the winter.
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- south norfolk, uk
Look beyond.
Why are the BBC running a piece like this?
What narrative/agenda is being advanced by this?
Who suggested to the producer, to go into this?
Why are the BBC running a piece like this?
What narrative/agenda is being advanced by this?
Who suggested to the producer, to go into this?
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Coming up again on BBC Breakfast now.
If you want to watch a repeat of it on BBC iPlayer, it started at 8.22
The first bit was at 7.27
If you want to watch a repeat of it on BBC iPlayer, it started at 8.22
The first bit was at 7.27
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beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
Will help to push the climate change agenda. First we were going to turn into a desert, now we'll be flooded forever.
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- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
OMG!
What a load of Rubbish!
So the wheat that has been harvested so far this year is not good enough quality.
Meaning they are having to import it from Germany and Canada.
Hopefully regenerative farming will get yields to recover.
FFS!
How many times do we see something on the Beeb we actually know something about and it is is not only wrong, but the truth is completely the reverse?
What a load of Rubbish!
So the wheat that has been harvested so far this year is not good enough quality.
Meaning they are having to import it from Germany and Canada.
Hopefully regenerative farming will get yields to recover.
FFS!
How many times do we see something on the Beeb we actually know something about and it is is not only wrong, but the truth is completely the reverse?
tullah
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- Linconshire
Look what he’s dressed in for gods sake.
matthew
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- Location
- Cornwall, SW England
So we'll import what we need, and tick the relevant boxes for winter bird seed, trees, BNG and carbon?
There's a slight problem with that. Most of the EU has swallowed the same Net Zero pill and is decimating its agricultural base. And we can no longer rely on Ukraine, formerly the bread basket of the eastern states. Theres' a little 'local disturbance' going on.
Perhaps China will oblige. They seem to be providing every bloody thing else.
There's a slight problem with that. Most of the EU has swallowed the same Net Zero pill and is decimating its agricultural base. And we can no longer rely on Ukraine, formerly the bread basket of the eastern states. Theres' a little 'local disturbance' going on.
Perhaps China will oblige. They seem to be providing every bloody thing else.
- Location
- Yorkshire
A vision in beige grasping his freshly plucked sheaf of golden corn.
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- Lincolnshire
What people can’t seem to understand is that climate change is already reducing yields and that rather than reduce them further by all sorts of greening rubbish and regulations we should be endeavouring to maintain or increase production, maybe even reopen intervention type stores to carry us through a failed harvest and smooth out supply issues. People laugh at this but it’s ironic that through times of plenty we had such stores but now when things are more precarious we have next to nothing in reserve.
How much wheat in money is in a loaf of bread? I bet the packaging costs more? So my point is even if the wheat doubled in price, the amount of wheat that makes up the total retail price after everyone has had their cut is a fraction? More scaremongering same as potato cost of chrisps is marginal\\\\\\\\/
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- Near Colchester
Not really that much mention from the miller that wheat price has more or less halved in 2 years either.
Power/fuel cost s up for production and transport out i suppose, and general costs and they haven't had the bps eitheror any other of the so name area based sub since about 1992 or whatever.
Best way is to grow it yourself and mill mix your own that's the only way about one of the last remain Pig farms around here survived ,oh well actually they had the sub as well over their fair sized land area which would also grow wheat luckily.
all the small land acreage ones (Pigs) stopped about 25 yrs ago or so,.
Sheep /cattle feed uses more barley still quite dear though i concede,that and imported bits and bobs....
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It's a sound idea.
But firstly, it would need a different name given the abomination that our previous "intervention" turned in to.
Secondly, public sector now seems incapable of running anything even vaguely efficiently or competently.
Good idea for a conglomerate of grain growers and millers surely?
If they could agree!
- Location
- S E Glos
No mention of Ukraine? Isn't that where all our wheat comes from?
I thought it was Beau Brummell!
- Location
- Herefordshire
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
With wheat at about £200/tonne, about 8p/loaf.
The most expensive bit of a loaf of bread is the energy needed to bake it.