Small farms will go,it will be big national companies.No concern for welfare or wildlife just creating food at a price for the rich.World will be hungry ,too many people .The whole country will be one big prairie farm surrounded by houses.I will be long gone and so will control .The world is already at the stage who shouts loudest gets.
Agriculture in the next 100 years
- Thread starter Kevtherev
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- Essex
Here's a thought - what if contrary to the common belief populations start to fall rapidly globally. It happens very fast (in two generations). We are already seeing this happen in other countries.
I think in 100 years time, in the UK we will work less as a society 3 days a week? and work longer 75+ yo with more job shares, we will have more leisure time than ever.
We will eat less but better meat and processed meat (burgers etc) will be replaced by a laboratory alternative.
Farming will either be 'industrialised (robots)' or 'leisurised quaint tractors and horses' to cater for the people with all the free time.
We will employ more people in Leisure - though maybe not 'farmers', almost none in industrial farming.
We will have given up on the food security argument having finally acknowledged that the food system is much more complicated than just being able to grow a % of our populations need.
Farmers will be forced to change or more enterprising individuals will see the opportunity in the leisure/niche market and will make a mint.
The inheritance tax loophole on farm land will be abolished.
My 2 cents anyway.
Will
I think in 100 years time, in the UK we will work less as a society 3 days a week? and work longer 75+ yo with more job shares, we will have more leisure time than ever.
We will eat less but better meat and processed meat (burgers etc) will be replaced by a laboratory alternative.
Farming will either be 'industrialised (robots)' or 'leisurised quaint tractors and horses' to cater for the people with all the free time.
We will employ more people in Leisure - though maybe not 'farmers', almost none in industrial farming.
We will have given up on the food security argument having finally acknowledged that the food system is much more complicated than just being able to grow a % of our populations need.
Farmers will be forced to change or more enterprising individuals will see the opportunity in the leisure/niche market and will make a mint.
The inheritance tax loophole on farm land will be abolished.
My 2 cents anyway.
Will
I love an optimistic outlook!
Bogweevil
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Climate change: spuds, veg and fruit growing moves to Scotland.
West country, Wales and NW become predominantly arable.
Maize, sunflowers and soya in SE.
Livestock boom on high ground farms and N Scotland
London goes vegan and becomes self sufficient due to vertical farms, main street trees are olives and date palms
Norfolk dries up and blows away.
West country, Wales and NW become predominantly arable.
Maize, sunflowers and soya in SE.
Livestock boom on high ground farms and N Scotland
London goes vegan and becomes self sufficient due to vertical farms, main street trees are olives and date palms
Norfolk dries up and blows away.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I went to a discussion group yesterday and wondered if it was worthy of inclusion on this thread..
A block of 3 dairy farms, just in the beginnings of organic conversion.
3 large Milfos milking parlours, each run by a team of 3 workers (one is always off/ two on) with a manager overseeing operations across the farms.
As calving starts, the first farm (54bail)is filled to capacity, then the next (80bail) then the later calvers up to the end (64bail)
as it is later country at one end..
Last season they milked 5780 cows but will destock to allow the conversion process to around 5500 cows.. not a bad ratio of productivity/staff, I thought
As grass production recovers, their goal is to produce all their grain inputs on farm as part of their paddock rotation, and plans are underway to produce enough electricity to be a net exporter of that as well.
A block of 3 dairy farms, just in the beginnings of organic conversion.
3 large Milfos milking parlours, each run by a team of 3 workers (one is always off/ two on) with a manager overseeing operations across the farms.
As calving starts, the first farm (54bail)is filled to capacity, then the next (80bail) then the later calvers up to the end (64bail)
as it is later country at one end..
Last season they milked 5780 cows but will destock to allow the conversion process to around 5500 cows.. not a bad ratio of productivity/staff, I thought
As grass production recovers, their goal is to produce all their grain inputs on farm as part of their paddock rotation, and plans are underway to produce enough electricity to be a net exporter of that as well.
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Who does the work on the Chinese farms in Australia. Is it chinamen or do they employ Ozzie blokes as managers and contractors ?
Suckndiesel
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- Location
- Newtownards
Have a couple of friends from here that worked on a Chinese owned farm in Australia about 4 years ago. Think it was managed by an ozzie.
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
i'm with the apocalyptic posters on here.....
.....the few remaining brits (if there are any) will be dependant on yaks foraging on tundra type ground for food and fuel......
.....it all started when global warming started to really be noticed...at first displaced third world ppl migrated starting conflict in their destinations....conflict turned to local wars...wars spread....eventually 'limited use' nuclear strikes were tried to contain these conflicts but,as one was stopped, two others started...superpowers fell out.....usa fearing russia's size , natural resources and thus ability to fare 'best' from an apocalypse became nervous.... sections of china's population moved towards russia...china's communist party even resorted to limited use of nuclear weapons on it's own ppl to stop it's population moving...calling them 'internal protection zones'...but it wasn't enough....
......finally the superpowers agreed that in order to preserve something they must destroy virtually all ,apart from some elites, in their respected countries....targets lined up agreed upon....no area must escape for fear of a post apocalyptic advantage and indeed some areas, notably those likely to support radical islam, were 'doubled up'....then the buttons were pushed
....of course it didn't go according to plan for the elites...famine/conflict/disease ensured that...but around the world some humanity survived...communicating via the shattered internet where electricity could be generated....til the ice age created by the 'nuclear winter' happened.....still in small pockets in the world humanity held on... the planet cooled...beginning to return to a situation where more life could be sustained.......goya sighed that she wasn't rid of humans and settled back to watch it all over again
.....the few remaining brits (if there are any) will be dependant on yaks foraging on tundra type ground for food and fuel....
.......it all started when global warming started to really be noticed...at first displaced third world ppl migrated starting conflict in their destinations....conflict turned to local wars...wars spread....eventually 'limited use' nuclear strikes were tried to contain these conflicts but,as one was stopped, two others started...superpowers fell out.....usa fearing russia's size , natural resources and thus ability to fare 'best' from an apocalypse became nervous.... sections of china's population moved towards russia...china's communist party even resorted to limited use of nuclear weapons on it's own ppl to stop it's population moving...calling them 'internal protection zones'...but it wasn't enough....
......finally the superpowers agreed that in order to preserve something they must destroy virtually all ,apart from some elites, in their respected countries....targets lined up agreed upon....no area must escape for fear of a post apocalyptic advantage and indeed some areas, notably those likely to support radical islam, were 'doubled up'....then the buttons were pushed
....of course it didn't go according to plan for the elites...famine/conflict/disease ensured that...but around the world some humanity survived...communicating via the shattered internet where electricity could be generated....til the ice age created by the 'nuclear winter' happened.....still in small pockets in the world humanity held on... the planet cooled...beginning to return to a situation where more life could be sustained.......goya sighed that she wasn't rid of humans and settled back to watch it all over again
i'm with the apocalyptic posters on here.....
.....the few remaining brits (if there are any) will be dependant on yaks foraging on tundra type ground for food and fuel....
.....it all started when global warming started to really be noticed...at first displaced third world ppl migrated starting conflict in their destinations....conflict turned to local wars...wars spread....eventually 'limited use' nuclear strikes were tried to contain these conflicts but,as one was stopped, two others started...superpowers fell out.....usa fearing russia's size , natural resources and thus ability to fare 'best' from an apocalypse became nervous.... sections of china's population moved towards russia...china's communist party even resorted to limited use of nuclear weapons on it's own ppl to stop it's population moving...calling them 'internal protection zones'...but it wasn't enough....
......finally the superpowers agreed that in order to preserve something they must destroy virtually all ,apart from some elites, in their respected countries....targets lined up agreed upon....no area must escape for fear of a post apocalyptic advantage and indeed some areas, notably those likely to support radical islam, were 'doubled up'....then the buttons were pushed
....of course it didn't go according to plan for the elites...famine/conflict/disease ensured that...but around the world some humanity survived...communicating via the shattered internet where electricity could be generated....til the ice age created by the 'nuclear winter' happened.....still in small pockets in the world humanity held on... the planet cooled...beginning to return to a situation where more life could be sustained.......goya sighed that she wasn't rid of humans and settled back to watch it all over again
The world will be controlled by wild oats , George Orwell was nearly correct.
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
My little bit already is...
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
The Government will scrap BPS. They will also get rid of the red diesel grade (like the Netherlands already have) so we will all have to pay full duty on it. Inheritance tax perks for farms will be abolished. Planning law will be tightened up so farms have to go through the same process as anyone else to put buildings up.
There will be no more family farms and it will all be controlled by huge corporations as only they can afford the land and the capital investment.
There will be no more family farms and it will all be controlled by huge corporations as only they can afford the land and the capital investment.
- Location
- Fife
If inheritance tax advantages for agricultural land are abolished, along with BPS, and building laws tightened, will land values not fall dramatically?
In your example what would set the value of land other than its production capacity?
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
@unlacedgecko - hopefully I'm wrong then...
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
It might not be much differant, cant see things changing as fast as they did after ww2 kind of flat lined at the moment.
Think I've read the book....." Fly farming" by JR Hartley.
Storeman
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- South East Englandshire
Think I've read the book....." Fly farming" by JR Hartley.
I've been trying to get a copy of that for ages.
Can you tell me where you got yours from?
Pilgrimmick
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- Location
- Argyll
yellow pages!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Yellow pages, ? Thats where u buy a gramaphone isnt it?
- Location
- Cornwall
What's wrong with agricultural land being valued by its ability to produce agricultural produce?
Of course that will never happen in the UK, but we can wish.