AHDB can feck right off.

[delilah]

We Eat Balanced 2022 starts today, so thought I would be a good little levy payer and share the social media.
Well, that's not happening.
WTF is it with this industry ? Why are we so utterly incapable of promoting ourselves - all of us - rather than this constant 'some farms are better than others' that we get from both the AHDB and the NFU?
Pathetic.

https://www.facebook.com/WeEatBalanced/posts/416343880273041

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Sick of it.

 

[DrWazzock]

Waste of time.

 

[livestock 1]

Watched a bit on the news last night a farmer was saying how good elms was and saying how he was farming properly and a clip of him cutting a field of flowers for silage

 

[DRC]

It’s become a religion despite it not suiting many farms and would lead to food shortages if everyone was forced into it.

 

[Gedd]

Watched a bit on the news last night a farmer was saying how good elms was and saying how he was farming properly and a clip of him cutting a field of flowers for silage

And he was organic

 

[livestock 1]

And he was organic

Yes. It was a bit of a dig at other farmers I thought

 

[Northern territory]

All direct drilling, regenerative farming promotion is a dig at other systems. People always say it and it’s true, many of these arable units have started from such a low base things could only improve. Those of us who have continued to farm on a mixed basis have been doing it for years.

 

[delilah]

The point - if there is a point - of We Eat Balanced is that it is going head to head with Veganuary. There has been reams and reams of stuff put on here by folks showing the many environmental and social benefits of livestock agriculture. There is a thread running on the very subject right now.

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/what-did-the-rumens-do-for-us.360752/

But no, the AHDB can't stick to the subject, they have to go off on a tangent and find a way to royally p!ss off a good chunk of their levy payers. It really is unbelievable.

 

[gone up the hill]

AHDB are an utter disgrace and should be disbanded!

Why the hell we should be forced to pay a fiscal tax ( which the levy actually is ) to a quango that is actively trying to drive us ( UK farmers ) out of business god only knows.....

 

[colhonk]

Massive amount of farmland is not fit to direct drill BECAUSE of the subsoil, Note where most of these direct drillers are who tell us how clever they are.

 

[penntor]

Saw the AHDB 'we eat balanced' advert on TV this evening. It was immediately followed by an advert for plant based meat meals, what a joke.

 

[JohnGalway]

We Eat Balanced 2022 starts today, so thought I would be a good little levy payer and share the social media.
Well, that's not happening.
WTF is it with this industry ? Why are we so utterly incapable of promoting ourselves - all of us - rather than this constant 'some farms are better than others' that we get from both the AHDB and the NFU?
Pathetic.

https://www.facebook.com/WeEatBalanced/posts/416343880273041

Dunno about ahdb but as for the blurb info, it's correct.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Sorry I didn’t realise what they were supposed to be doing with the eat balanced ad. Could well be an ad for plant based foodstuffs.

 

[gone up the hill]

Massive amount of farmland is not fit to direct drill BECAUSE of the subsoil, Note where most of these direct drillers are who tell us how clever they are.

Direct drilling works on good land with A1 drainage!

But get a wet autumn/winter and poorer quality land/drainage etc it will severally hit yield.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Direct drilling works on good land with A1 drainage!

But get a wet autumn/winter and poorer quality land/drainage etc it will severally hit yield.

That land is destined for trees

 

[gone up the hill]

That land is destined for trees

That is what the powers that be are hoping but i can tell you with certainty they are going to be VERY disappointed as most of it will not end up in trees!

 

[DrDunc]

That land is destined for trees

Another monoculture destroying natural habitat, how is that environmentally beneficial?

About as environmentally sound as importing food grown in Amazon forest land cleared of trees?

All the while, big businesses make big money

 

[oil barron]

Dunno about ahdb but as for the blurb info, it's correct.

Apart from its not.

 

[SilliamWhale]

No till works on a lot more soils than people are aware of. Most no tillers don't care what ploughmen do they just enjoy the challenges of zero till and want to reduce erosion, we keep saying do what you want it's a free country but for many it still doesn't sink in.

But that said I'm not so sure it suits the sentiment of the we eat balanced campaign which I think is in principal a good campaign.

I don't think a great deal of harm is being done by the statement on soil health though.