100,000 pigs to be destroyed

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
It's going to be our fault there is this trouble. From the press it seems that the majority of co2 is captured as a by product of fertiliser production. They'll stiff us if they can.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
They could double the wages but if the folk who are trained and willing to do the work aren’t allowed in the country then they are on a hiding to nothing.
Tbh i think foreigners have wised up and just dont want the s.h.i.t jobs anymore, plenty of work on the same or better pay doing nicer cleaner jobs. The race to the bottom finding mugs to do the jobs we dont want to do is nearing the bottom of the barrel, we replaced the gypsies with the poles, then the poles with romanians etc etc.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
I can’t see why prisoners can’t be asked if they will do it?
@JP1 @Goweresque some of the big lamb slaughter houses have been on stop this month already because of staff shortages between in the slaughterhouse and hauliers taking away
 

Goweresque

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Location
North Wilts
That’s as ridiculous a comment as the tosh @Goweresque posted above, imo.😡

Why is it tosh? The UK has a history of failing to face up to economic problems, and just trying to take the easy way out of importing cheap labour instead. We started doing it in the 1950s and have been doing it on and off ever since, in spades since the expansion of the EU in 2004. And like all easy ways out, you always end up paying a higher price in the end. If businesses aren't forced to end their addiction to cheap labour now, when exactly will they be? If you let them Big Business will always find a reason not to abandon the cheap labour route and go down the harder route of increasing productivity via investment in machinery and labour training/better wages/conditions.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Why is it tosh? The UK has a history of failing to face up to economic problems, and just trying to take the easy way out of importing cheap labour instead. We started doing it in the 1950s and have been doing it on and off ever since, in spades since the expansion of the EU in 2004. And like all easy ways out, you always end up paying a higher price in the end. If businesses aren't forced to end their addiction to cheap labour now, when exactly will they be? If you let them Big Business will always find a reason not to abandon the cheap labour route and go down the harder route of increasing productivity via investment in machinery and labour training/better wages/conditions.
What you say is correct
But we are where we are, and the labour shortage needs fixing now.
Heading for a wartime situation pronto
 

Sonoftheheir

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
West Suffolk
Tbh i think foreigners have wised up and just dont want the s.h.i.t jobs anymore, plenty of work on the same or better pay doing nicer cleaner jobs. The race to the bottom finding mugs to do the jobs we dont want to do is nearing the bottom of the barrel, we replaced the gypsies with the poles, then the poles with romanians etc etc.

I took my son to a McDonald’s on Friday evening in Bury st Edmunds for a “treat”

I think it’s safe to say most of the foreign workers are now working for just eat, deliveroo etc

There must have been up to 10 different guys going in there picking up deliveries! All driving up and swinging round in a pedestrianised area.

Ive never seen anything like it, things have changed so much in the past 18 months.

Maybe McDonald’s should start offering pork products, it was incredibly busy in there. The drive through at Mildenhall was queued to the main road on the way to BSE and still like that on my return home.

I wonder what % of the nation they feed everyday?
 

Hilly

Member
The big pig boys have been on a race to the bottom for years perhaps they have got their now ? One massive pig farmer stood in my yard and said he loves it when things get really financially tight as it bankrupts the competition , I guess he’s having a great time at the moment , pigs dominated by massive company’s hard to have sympathy for anything other than the pigs imo .
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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