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<blockquote data-quote="Tubbylew" data-source="post: 7372965" data-attributes="member: 34620"><p>Just my pennys worth. The whole concept of a golden handshake for retiring farmers who have already claimed many thousands of pounds in subsidy payments over there agricultural careers is a complete anathma to me, and I'm a (sort of) farmer, I'd hate to think what the rest of the working population would think of this, but it will do untold damage to agricultures reputation imo. ELMS so far seems to be hollow platitudes, so HMG can say they did something whilst not doing alot at all. They also seem to be at crossed purposes. Mr Kennedy said at an efra select comitee that "the average wealth transfer [from goverment to farmers] is £30000, and ELMS will be much less than that." But this will be a hugely expensive scheme to administer, never mind the capital works, and when you add a financial insentive to make the scheme attractive, its clear they're out of touch with the costs involved. Maybe thats why they're still scant on detail, the detail that was due in semptember, or was it november, or january, or...</p><p>If they really wanted to help ag. they'd harden up on supermarket cartels, and maintain equivalent import standards. If they wanted to help the environment, they'd buy up vast tracts of land at market value and turn in to forest or whatever, but they don't have the brass for that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tubbylew, post: 7372965, member: 34620"] Just my pennys worth. The whole concept of a golden handshake for retiring farmers who have already claimed many thousands of pounds in subsidy payments over there agricultural careers is a complete anathma to me, and I'm a (sort of) farmer, I'd hate to think what the rest of the working population would think of this, but it will do untold damage to agricultures reputation imo. ELMS so far seems to be hollow platitudes, so HMG can say they did something whilst not doing alot at all. They also seem to be at crossed purposes. Mr Kennedy said at an efra select comitee that "the average wealth transfer [from goverment to farmers] is £30000, and ELMS will be much less than that." But this will be a hugely expensive scheme to administer, never mind the capital works, and when you add a financial insentive to make the scheme attractive, its clear they're out of touch with the costs involved. Maybe thats why they're still scant on detail, the detail that was due in semptember, or was it november, or january, or... If they really wanted to help ag. they'd harden up on supermarket cartels, and maintain equivalent import standards. If they wanted to help the environment, they'd buy up vast tracts of land at market value and turn in to forest or whatever, but they don't have the brass for that. [/QUOTE]
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