Boris Johnson unveils ‘grow for Britain’ plan

[bobk]

we are, politicians with common sense and integrity!

Said it for years , we don't pay enough to get good people

 

[Tarw Coch]

Said it for years , we don't pay enough to get good people

We pay too much for some of the ones we’ve got

 

[bobk]

We pay too much for some of the ones we’ve got

Probably all of the present mob .

 

[Cowcorn]

Vegan meals in prisons, schools and hospitals.
Does this dummy realise how much of the farmland in the country that he runs isn't suitable for producing vegan options.
We all know this is just an empty publicity act, but they could try not to sound so clownish

The only plant the inmates of prison are interested in is cannabis maybe Boris has had his brain cells fried with weed !!!
Any more fairytale policies coming out of his arse and its a definite !!!

 

[No wot]

Complete and utter dribble dreamed up by the impractical, out of touch, bunny hugging , upper middle classes that govern us and are so far up their own backsides that they can't see the biggest food security tsunami coming to hit the country since 1940

 

[Devil's advocate]

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.

A lot of glasshouses were not planted in the late winter period.

Shortage of Labour due to brexit, high heating costs due to Putin & other high costs versus historically poor prices driven by supermarkets wanting to sell very cheaply.

 

[Kevtherev]

Meanwhile

 

[maen]

A lot of glasshouses were not planted in the late winter period.

Shortage of Labour due to brexit, high heating costs due to Putin & other high costs versus historically poor prices driven by supermarkets wanting to sell very cheaply.

Labour is the Key ingredient. Pre Brexit the Labour balance was just about right. Labour was available on Farm, in Factories and in Hospitality. Covid was a smoke screen that confused the reliance of foreign Labour. Post Brexit the realisation is that Boris delivered a delusional ‘New Little England’. Now we seem to want our foreign Labour back, was it really worth the effort, but will they come back?

 

[Willie adie]

The NFU are a joke. It’s just a bunch of conference w*nkers. Can add the NSA to that list. Jokers the lot of them.

NFU no f**king use, all the fight of a sick lamb, thank f**k there are no NFU hierarchy in Ukraine

 

[melted welly]

Broccoli & caulie prices going through the roof, carrots & potatoes still cheap.

Ploughing carrots in up here, and tatties going for stock feed. I don’t think we need any more, there’s not a shortage.

 

[Henarar]

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.

we grew an acre of broccoli outside 30 odd years ago, had great fun boxing it all up and flogging it to the local veg shops

 

[Chickcatcher]

NFFN, possibly Next Farm For Norman!

 

[thorpe]

we grew an acre of broccoli outside 30 odd years ago, had great fun boxing it all up and flogging it to the local veg shops

today it would be what local veg shops!

 

[Henarar]

today it would be what local veg shops!

we have a very good one in the local town, the owner said he would buy apples of us if we had some this year

 

[Hampton]

I think it’s great! I can now grow fruit and veg, Boris says so!
I hadn’t realised my land was grade 1 veg land, I always thought it was grade four sh!te.
Must be worth a fortune now!

 

[Lakes Nash]

Lettuce!! Or stubble turnips, bit late for owt else!! The horse left the building ages ago!

 

[Yale]

NFFN, possibly Next Farm For Norman!

Home | Nature Friendly Farming Network, NFFN

www.nffn.org.uk

 

[Steevo]

Lettuce!! Or stubble turnips, bit late for owt else!! The horse left the building ages ago!

The dead horse!

 

[serf]

socialist

 

[Devil's advocate]

we grew an acre of broccoli outside 30 odd years ago, had great fun boxing it all up and flogging it to the local veg shops

Its virtually all grown outside, but the seeds are usually grown in 345 module trays in a glasshouse & then transplanted. There are various reasons, more precise plant population, easier weed control, greater uniformaty of crop but one over whelming reason is a seedling without 100& protection from insects is a dangerous place for young brassica plants.