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    Powdered silage inoculants

    I was told that all the bugs are in there already, and some extra sugar to give them a kick would probably be more effective. Not sure if I believe it
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    UK Food Security - A Fork in the Road

    Would be interested to hear people's memories of the old organisations he mentioned no longer exist - proper Ministry of Ag, Marketing Boards, etc. Were they useful or did they just get in the way? Need bringing back?
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    UK Food Security - A Fork in the Road

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    Hosier - Open-Air Dairying

    I'm grateful for the metric system. Looking at these numbers, I can hardly make any sense of it. "" 720 gallons each. -- Produce per cow £40-2-0 -- Cost of production per cow £23-15-0 My average labour cost per gallon of milk last year was 1-7/16 d. One man, £2, and one boy £1 5s., £3 5s. per...
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    Pigs

    I think by the quoting of Leviticus (books of Moses) you can rule out Muslim
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    Hosier - Open-Air Dairying

    Hosier himself touches on that topic in the text: "Another point that Mr. Mackintosh touched on was whether I was coming under the hand of the Sanitary Inspector through not having floors to my cowsheds. I would remind Mr. Mackintosh that probably within the meaning of the Act it is not a...
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    Hosier - Open-Air Dairying

    Open-Air Dairying
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    Andrew Neil's 'GB News'

    What was their budget for the sound stage, £2k? I'm subscribed to various YouTube podcast shows with better sets and audio. Just a black curtain and a tiny desk. Looks like some sort of university TV channel project, and the audio is terrible.
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    Animal rights blocking Mcdonalds distribution

    I think the benefit of new legislation is ut covers nonviolent demands for something other than money. If someone threatens to smash up your shop unless you pay, they'd get locked up for a long time, but threatening to blockade your business with a protest unless you stop doing something...
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    Animal rights blocking Mcdonalds distribution

    Society is in need of new criminal offnces legislating against these lot before small businesses start getting targeted. You could shut down a butchers shop in 6 weeks with a regular Saturday morning protest scaring off customers. I can see how someone minded to, could pay someone to whip up a...
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    Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy ?

    Photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + light --> C6H12O6 + 6 O2 The value of the carbohydrate molecule is in the hydrogen captured from the water. That's the value of photosynthesis. It splits hydrogen off from water. For a more simplistic example for your 8 year old, take a methane molecule CH4...
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    Soil carbon is a highly flawed climate policy ?

    Surely you're primarily selling the hydrogen (energy) and nitrogen (protein) output, not the carbon? If we could live off inert carbon we'd eat wood charcoal. I mean sure, there's carbon in a carbohydrate or a CH4 methane molecule but the value is in the H.
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    Charging Utilities for My time?

    Shouldn't that say the charges detailed do not include the cost of the agent, which will be charged in addition, as per their schedule?
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    Are supermarkets manipulating customers towards Veganism?

    I think it's just as simple as the food industry using buzz words used in lifestyle media to market a processed product as premium. High protein vegan sounds a lot better than hydrolysed soya lecithin. 'Organic Oat Milk' sounds better than diluted porridge. I quite often see things like...
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    Doesn't sound good

    I suppose private companies emptying septic tanks is the likely waste source?
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    IS GREEN RENEWABLE ENERGY A CON?

    There are various taxes and charges built into your monthly electricity bill which pay for all this greenery. You pay these, but the biggest energy users don't. For example, most big poultry outfits are eligible for 90% rebate on one tax element of the bill, but a small farm usually isn't. A...
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    Construction industry losing red diesel

    Rebate taxes surely provide more scope for fraud? The Export VAT merry-go-round was being pillaged for 30 years before they finally paid attention, from Richard Branson exporting fictional shipments of vinyl records in the 70s, all the way through until the early 2000s when the government...
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    Construction industry losing red diesel

    Very well said. If you take out unproductive things currently counted as GDP such as debt interest (apparently it's a service) , the UK economy goes from 6th largest to 22nd.
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    Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops

    I've been watching Once a Day Farmer over in NZ. Worth a watch!
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