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<blockquote data-quote="DrDunc" data-source="post: 8110813" data-attributes="member: 615"><p>Unfortunately we are all going to have to self flagellate in the coming turmoil. </p><p></p><p>For many big businesses manufacturing primary produce, be it horn or hoof, little will alter immediately while commodity inflation keeps pace with fossil fuel</p><p></p><p>The hundred quid social security benefit beach pish up will be the first casualty as belts are tightened, with likely Ryan air being one of the first "spectacular" demises</p><p></p><p>Those of us nearer to peasant proportions of farming have enjoyed a simple existence for a year or three now; subsidised comfortably to farm out machinery work to contractors, and feed procured in bags from a mill</p><p></p><p>Will we carry on with headlong pursuit of profit? Carrying us further down the destructive river sluggish with pollution from economies of scale mega farms?</p><p></p><p>Upland hill farms such as my own supported employment of three families, provided profit for reinvestment, and fed the nation barely more than a generation ago</p><p></p><p>Population explosion fed from the fossil fuel tit has turned the large family farm of yesterday into the one man croft existence of the very near future</p><p></p><p>Whether radical change occurs in our industry, and a return to more sustainable, dare I say, regenerative farming methods occur, it will be down to our politicians to decide. It is unfortunate that the greed for profit and popularity they continue to exhibit does not bode well for the required policy direction change that is needed for many of us, if we are to adapt sufficiently, and survive the cull</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrDunc, post: 8110813, member: 615"] Unfortunately we are all going to have to self flagellate in the coming turmoil. For many big businesses manufacturing primary produce, be it horn or hoof, little will alter immediately while commodity inflation keeps pace with fossil fuel The hundred quid social security benefit beach pish up will be the first casualty as belts are tightened, with likely Ryan air being one of the first "spectacular" demises Those of us nearer to peasant proportions of farming have enjoyed a simple existence for a year or three now; subsidised comfortably to farm out machinery work to contractors, and feed procured in bags from a mill Will we carry on with headlong pursuit of profit? Carrying us further down the destructive river sluggish with pollution from economies of scale mega farms? Upland hill farms such as my own supported employment of three families, provided profit for reinvestment, and fed the nation barely more than a generation ago Population explosion fed from the fossil fuel tit has turned the large family farm of yesterday into the one man croft existence of the very near future Whether radical change occurs in our industry, and a return to more sustainable, dare I say, regenerative farming methods occur, it will be down to our politicians to decide. It is unfortunate that the greed for profit and popularity they continue to exhibit does not bode well for the required policy direction change that is needed for many of us, if we are to adapt sufficiently, and survive the cull [/QUOTE]
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