I'm all for subsidising food security or even better ... Soil health. But alcohol ? Sorry that's not where I want my money spent. How much does alcoholism cost in both monetary and social terms ? I imagine it takes a lot more nurses to look after alcohol related illness than the whiskey calcs ?!
that is a very good point...isn't 1 in 4 A&E admissions alcohol related?...having said that i grow malting barley and also maize for AD.....which is morally more worthwhile?....what should i be growing instead?
I keep hearing the subsidy = cheap food argument. Can anyone explain this calculation to me? I'd say wheat is cheap at the moment at £100 , everyone is getting a sub, so why complain? When wheat was £200 per tonne everyone still got the sub and the price didn't drop. I've been in this game 20 years and I've always heard it said, but I have never understood why.
Don't ask me chap, I am still trying to work out how nitrogen can inflate in price by over 300% in the last 15 years.I keep hearing the subsidy = cheap food argument. Can anyone explain this calculation to me? I'd say wheat is cheap at the moment at £100 , everyone is getting a sub, so why complain? When wheat was £200 per tonne everyone still got the sub and the price didn't drop. I've been in this game 20 years and I've always heard it said, but I have never understood why.
Hi...Would your AD cope with large bales from fertility building leys ? Is your maize met aldehyde dressed ? Whats the rest of your cropping ? If subsidies were redirected to soil health and stayed with the land (eg change of tenants) would that appeal ? (big question I know
Things must have been bad!, all they could afford was -: