beardface
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- East Yorkshire
Not sure who's going to pick all this extra fruit and veg. Maybe we'll all just steal it from the fields like other third world countries....
Boris Johnson unveils ‘grow for Britain’ plan
- Thread starter Steevo
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I don't think anyone will ever steal veggies here from the fields, as it may need washing and cooking before eating, remember we are a country that sells ready cut carrots or runner beans etc in the supermarkets ready to cook or even ready hard boiled eggs!!!!!
Fish
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- Location
- North yorkshire
Just BS from BJ
its a wonder his underpants haven’t caught fire.
its a wonder his underpants haven’t caught fire.
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
i've stuck by boris forgiving his catalogue of excess and 'cock up'.. but ffs this is the last straw for me....time for him and 'numb nuts' to go
- Location
- Durham, UK
27 pages of utter utter drivel.
Worst government in living memory and i include blair the war criminal in that.
Worst government in living memory and i include blair the war criminal in that.
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- Yorks
With the planning thing, presume they're angling at making it easier to get permission for polytunnels or greenhouses. That's a start, as is allowing migrant workers for poultry processing, but if borris wants more mushrooms and greenhouses, then might be a good idea to allow foreign workers for horticulture or even dairy, spuds, pigs, etc.
Will be interesting to hear how borris intends to...
Monday’s strategy will announce a “focus on pioneering more organic-based fertilisers”
...not sure where this will be sourced from - I guess sewage cake, which as long as microplastics are dealt with, and if EA allow the phosphate loadings, then better on the land than pumped directly into watercourses. Come to think about it, if EA complain about phosphate from sewage cake, they should understand spreading it sensibly over farm land will cause much lower river phosphate levels than pumping it straight into the river!!!
Will be interesting to hear how borris intends to...
Monday’s strategy will announce a “focus on pioneering more organic-based fertilisers”
...not sure where this will be sourced from - I guess sewage cake, which as long as microplastics are dealt with, and if EA allow the phosphate loadings, then better on the land than pumped directly into watercourses. Come to think about it, if EA complain about phosphate from sewage cake, they should understand spreading it sensibly over farm land will cause much lower river phosphate levels than pumping it straight into the river!!!
blair wasnt just a war criminal he was far worse than that! tell me where did his wealth come from? socialist HA HA HA!
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
So with the mooted reduction in red meat products where is much of this sh*t going to come from
- Location
- Wiltshire
So having spent yesterday reading the farming rules for water and some more online info I would like George to tell me how I can use his wonderful organic fertiliser here.
I have just about 700 ac and about 100 of that is permanent pasture some is too steep to drive on. We have been slowly building the herd to now just about 400, some of the replacements are elsewhere in the winter.
I’ve been good and have decent organic matter in most of my thin chalk soils. Fym and slurry has been used on all crops. I have had really good results with slurry on wheat in the spring. I also export a lot of muck to neighbours. I haven’t bought phosphate or potash for at least 25 years.
The problem is that of all the land I can get a tanker or umbilical on less than 30ac has a P index less than 3. So if I get a zealous inspector here will I have my business shut down? I think it’s impossible to export all my slurry/fym. I know the rules say you can spread if all alternatives are explored.
Frankly I’m worried
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betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Dartmoor Prison's "home farm" will be selling all their livestock and will go all out growing wheat, avocados, raspberries and bananas for sale to westcountry schools hospitals etc. Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust are already saying that Christmas dinner for patients this year will be Dartmoor grown banana sandwiches and raspberry ripple non dairy ice cream.
Meanwhile the local Nuffield private hospital will offer Dartmoor grown roast beef and lamb sourced from farmers that actually know what the feck they are doing
Meanwhile the local Nuffield private hospital will offer Dartmoor grown roast beef and lamb sourced from farmers that actually know what the feck they are doing
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
Rather than phasing out eating meat, for the planet we should be aiming to phase out non biodegradable clothes (and therefore a lot of micro plastics), clothes from Wool, Leather, Cotton, Linen, Hemp even Cotton is a bit dodgy and I heard a radio programme about Bamboo saying the way it's treated is very bad for the environment. At least animal based clothes don't leave a trail of environmental pollution far outlasting the generations who would have worn them.
- Location
- Wiltshire
- Location
- Yorks
Makes sense to make clothes from renewable and biodegradable materials.
Actually they sold them yrs ago ,the prison farm was closed in 2004.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Keep up love
Broccoli & caulie harvested now is uk product.
Sown October under glass in modules, grown slowly, planted early Mar under thermal plastic or fleece. Lots of work but very worth while prices, almost double last years.
wanton dwarf
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Fruit & Veg farms - in other words Green Houses.
It'll take at least a year just to put up the Green Houses and probably another year to get the planning & construction firm to do so.
Not sure how long it will take to grow the crops .. all hot air & p@ss IMHO.
Good , veg is too cheap by miles
I luv cauliflower , sooner starve than eat broccoli
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
We aren't even short of fruit and veg and it's all ludicrously cheap. The large veg growers aren't having a good time this year. So why encourage more to be grown. Idiots.
We're not short of anything in reality.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
we are, politicians with common sense and integrity!