Agri-environment survey - share your views - chance to win Farmers Weekly subscription

[lcollas]

Hello all,

I'm Lydia, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. We have an online survey that we are looking for arable farmers to take part in. We're looking at agri-environment schemes and want to know how farmers would prefer they operated. You do not have to be currently participating in any agri-environment schemes to take part - we are looking for input from everyone. You'll be asked about different agri-environment options and asked to indicate which (if any) you'd choose to participate in before being asked some questions about why you made those decisions. It will take 20-30 minutes to complete.

We value every person's input. This is a key time to be sharing your views and we plan to use this data to make recommendations to policymakers. We have 3 subscriptions to Farmers Weekly up for grabs which give unlimited access to online content and are each worth £120 - these will be awarded at random following completion of data collection in February. You will also receive a summary of the research as well as a breakdown of our estimates of what it would cost you to implement different agri-environment options on your land. We will also provide an estimate of the environmental benefit associated with the different options which we hope that, combined with the cost estimates, could help to inform your decisions about whether to get involved in agri-environment schemes and if so what options to select.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me either on here or by email - my email can be found by following the link and then clicking on the "Participant Information Sheet".

To complete the survey, please click here https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57w7CIWNYOmdQYR

Lydia

 

[Lincsman]

I might if there is a cash alternative!

 

[Bald Rick]

Hi Lydia

Bit “sectorist” ... us dairy farmers can struggle to get in to Ag-En schemes too on a points based system or where there is a requirement to downgrade productive land.

Ta. BR

PS wine in lieu of cash is acceptable

 

[lcollas]

I might if there is a cash alternative!

Ah sadly there is not!

 

[lcollas]

Hi Lydia

Bit “sectorist” ... us dairy farmers can struggle to get in to Ag-En schemes too on a points based system or where there is a requirement to downgrade productive land.

Ta. BR

PS wine in lieu of cash is acceptable

Totally understand what you're saying, we unfortunately have had to be selective as there are options discussed which can only be implemented on arable land

 

[lcollas]

Thanks for the responses so far!

 

[primmiemoo]

Hi Lydia, I'm out of scope for your study, sorry, but couldn't help noticing: £120 for the FW subscription?
They think they can get £138 out of me as a "valued" subscriber they're offering a "discount" to!

Huh! They're just going to have to try harder ... ? ?

 

[lcollas]

Hi Lydia, I'm out of scope for your study, sorry, but couldn't help noticing: £120 for the FW subscription?
They think they can get £138 out of me as a "valued" subscriber they're offering a "discount" to!

Huh! They're just going to have to try harder ... ??

What I'm offering are online subscriptions which give unlimited access to online content - I imagine you might be talking about the printed magazine so maybe they're not ripping you off after all!!

 

[lcollas]

I should say it's UK farmers we're looking for

 

[spin cycle]

won't do it....i want to see the questions before i commit to the first page....not 100% happy with conditions either

 

[timnorth]

Done

 

[Old Tip]

More likely to put folk of then get them to take part

 

[wanton dwarf]

I found the survey very assumptive.

I'm not personally interested in what unit of measure I got "Payments" in .. Hectares or Acres is IMHO irrelevant as the total should be the same.

But the assumption is that I accept environmental payments.

I don't. I never asked for them, I never voted for them and I don't want them.

What I want is to be paid the correct money for the food I produce and for those in Westminster who create these rules to apply them to imports .. if those imports have not been produced to the same standards then either the rules should be dropped for UK farmers or the imports banned.

6p on the price of a loaf of bread paid to farmers would go a long way to removing subsisdies altogether.

I'm also totally uninterested in the "Farmers Weekly".

 

[An Gof]

Can choose not to answer questions it says.
But if you don’t put your post code in it will not accept it.

 

[Walton2]

1 p on a loaf , paid to farmers and nobody else, would transform British Agriculture....

 

[Goweresque]

1 p on a loaf , paid to farmers and nobody else, would transform British Agriculture....

About 12m loaves of bread are sold per day (figures here: https://www.fob.uk.com/about-the-bread-industry/industry-facts/other-industry-data/ ), a penny on each equates to £120k per day, or £46m/year. Given the UK agricultural sector contributes about £9.5bn to GDP, I hardly think an extra £46m is going to transform the sector............

 

[Goweresque]

Incidentally, if the OP wants to understand what farmers attitudes to agri-environment schemes are, she would do far worse than read this thread (https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/countryside-stewardship-payment-period.301600/ ) and regurgitate it in its entirety to any 'policymakers' who happen to be passing. Then they might just get the message that farmers aren't going to join their wizzy eco-schemes if they don't get paid..............

 

[Scribus]

Is the second prize two subscriptions to FW?

 

[Walton2]

About 12m loaves of bread are sold per day (figures here: https://www.fob.uk.com/about-the-bread-industry/industry-facts/other-industry-data/ ), a penny on each equates to £120k per day, or £46m/year. Given the UK agricultural sector contributes about £9.5bn to GDP, I hardly think an extra £46m is going to transform the sector............

On the other hand, the average Brit pays about 4p per day for his wheat products. If this was 5p ...with that increase paid to the producers only....the value of wheat would increase from £180/tonne(thefigure I used for milling wheat)
to £225 .If British farmers could guarantee a price of £225/tonne for wheat for the next 5 years, British agriculture would be transformed.

 

[Goweresque]

On the other hand, the average Brit pays about 4p per day for his wheat products. If this was 5p ...with that increase paid to the producers only....the value of wheat would increase from £180/tonne(thefigure I used for milling wheat)
to £225 .If British farmers could guarantee a price of £225/tonne for wheat for the next 5 years, British agriculture would be transformed.

It might transform UK arable farming, it wouldn't do much for UK meat and dairy production though would it? It would just add to their cost of production as 2/3rds of the UK wheat crop is for feed, as is most of the barley. Unless they could also have a 25% higher guaranteed sale price for their products as well. Which suddenly is quite a hike for the consumer, as farmers tend to get more of the retail price of meat and dairy products than they do of cereals. For example the farmgate milk price is about 30p/litre currently whereas the retail price is about 50p. So if the farmer gets 25% more the retail price jumps by 7.5p/litre, or 17p for a 4 pint flagon. The consumer's going to notice that sort of hike. And complain......