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[Jon 3085]

Anyone else just seen on the news that farmer getting a thousand pound an acre sfp! BBC getting it wrong again

 

[robbie]

Yes just choked on my sarny why can they not get it right.I wonder how many townies are now working out how much the farmer on telly gets a year and are moaning about us.

 

[rusty]

Thought I had mis heard the presenter. Obviously I am not deaf after all!

 

[RobFZS]

If its not sfp, its mud on the road, if its not mud on the road its sh!t spreading smelling, if its not that its something else etc etc

 

[FarmyStu]

So what does a "typical" arable farmer get per acre?

 

[rob1]

We need to all email BBC and force a correction

 

[Jon 3085]

£85/acre

 

[Teejay]

You beat me to it, if we were getting £1000 per acre we would not need to worry about moddulation. Interesting that the wildlife groups blaimed the NFU for the government not taking the full 15% off us.

 

[Farmer T]

The chappy presenting is on twitter and I'm afraid he seems to air to the RSPB side as all his tweets include them. His topics include Bird numbers v farming rather than than saying what farming has done to bird numbers over the last 10-15 years.

What do we expect? The BBC are on holiday and its an easy story. However as its 'our' BBC we should certainly get in touch with them on the figures and let know we don't get the subsidy for owning the land but farming it.

 

[rob1]

Have emailed the beeb via their news web site, they say they will correct factual errors, please all do the same.

 

[scholland]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25459562

Complaining about environment payments to pillar 2 as well. Why don't our representatives let the press know about the greening measures which take up 30% if pillar 1?

 

[Lincsman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/21923880

 

[cowboysupper]

The chappy presenting is on twitter and I'm afraid he seems to air to the RSPB side as all his tweets include them. His topics include Bird numbers v farming rather than than saying what farming has done to bird numbers over the last 10-15 years.

What do we expect? The BBC are on holiday and its an easy story. However as its 'our' BBC we should certainly get in touch with them on the figures and let know we don't get the subsidy for owning the land but farming it.

Never seems to amaze me that none of these so called environmental groups ever mention the impact urbanisation has on the UK….its always these farmers fault.

 

[Jon 3085]

Never seems to amaze me that none of these so called environmental groups ever mention the impact urbanisation has on the UK….its always these farmers fault.

Cats kill all the birds here!!

 

[JP1]

Anyone else just seen on the news that farmer getting a thousand pound an acre sfp! BBC getting it wrong again

They keep repeating the BBC radio reporter saying the lower modulation "won't help the bird population". So even if there is an agenda there, why not say "wildlife" ............

 

[Farmer T]

Anyone wanting to correct the reporter he's at

@RHarrabin

However he's probably gone home early as it is a Friday and all

 

[Farmer Dod]

On BBC Breakfast last week they ran an article claiming that the UK's farmers got millions of £'s of subsidies taxpayers money for and I quote "not much more than owning land." That almost made me choke on my tea and buttery and then I remembered that only the BBC could spend taxpayers money celebrating the UK's farmers and their produce (Adam Henson's latest programme and the harvest programme a couple of months back) then run an article portraying Britains farmers as nothing more than subsidy junkies who get paid for doing very little.

 

[Banana Bar]

I have no idea why ANY farmer would willingly take part in a televised interview.

 

[roscoe erf]

Have emailed the beeb via their news web site, they say they will correct factual errors, please all do the same.

me too all the good it will do

 

[caveman]

On BBC Breakfast last week they ran an article claiming that the UK's farmers got millions of £'s of subsidies taxpayers money for and I quote "not much more than owning land."

Britains farmers as nothing more than subsidy junkies who get paid for doing very little.

Broken down to the basics needed to qualify, thats about right!