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Advice for Son Before Returning Home to Farm
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<blockquote data-quote="BrianV" data-source="post: 9187215" data-attributes="member: 150008"><p>To me the biggest shame of UK farming is the total lack of encouragement for young farmers, in fact current government policy with destocking, rewilding & in general cutting back on food production is speeding up the process as far as I can see, I left school at 16 & came home on the family farm & at that time I was lucky enough to have cousins & friends farming around that we could all rely on & compare the ups & downs of farming.</p><p>When my sons came home after either travelling or working elsewhere with good company things were already changing with far fewer of their age farming near by, now here in the UK I would worry for any youngster starting out on their farming career as there are very few young people farming & this can only get worse under present government directives.</p><p>One of the absolute joys of Switzerland is the amount of young people encouraged to be involved in farming in one way or other & any farming event is teaming with young people of all ages, I believe this is also encouraged in much of Europe.</p><p></p><p>Our terrible UK politicians seem obsessed with grinding UK farming into the ground & should be cursed for life for doing so in my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrianV, post: 9187215, member: 150008"] To me the biggest shame of UK farming is the total lack of encouragement for young farmers, in fact current government policy with destocking, rewilding & in general cutting back on food production is speeding up the process as far as I can see, I left school at 16 & came home on the family farm & at that time I was lucky enough to have cousins & friends farming around that we could all rely on & compare the ups & downs of farming. When my sons came home after either travelling or working elsewhere with good company things were already changing with far fewer of their age farming near by, now here in the UK I would worry for any youngster starting out on their farming career as there are very few young people farming & this can only get worse under present government directives. One of the absolute joys of Switzerland is the amount of young people encouraged to be involved in farming in one way or other & any farming event is teaming with young people of all ages, I believe this is also encouraged in much of Europe. Our terrible UK politicians seem obsessed with grinding UK farming into the ground & should be cursed for life for doing so in my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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