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thorpe

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That is a disgrace and drax should be shut if it can't burn coal. Importing woodchip from all over the world and calling it green- fudge off.
one day the uk the uk will be short of electric we thought ratcliffe ps had been shut down , cooling towers blasting out the other day , ihope they dont get it wrong.
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
I disagree. Why would it be edited out ?



That's more the point. Who is going to go on Countryfile and say that PP is better than trees, with the added benefit of producing nutrient dense food for humans ?
The NFU ? The AHDB ? Both of them say that we need less cows and more trees.

Stop blaming the BBC. The guilty party is UK ag, for being so completely and utterly useless at representing itself.
We don't seem to have anyone to get this stuff across
 

DeeGee

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Location
North East Wales
am i at my age ( over pension age )realistically going to plant trees as a cover for nefarious activities ,there again I can still remember a couple of hours under a weeping willow by a babbling brook on the outskirts of a village having just replenished body and soul with a lunch washed down with a glass or two of the amber nectar with a proper head from the village pub and the unrelenting sun beating down upon my shoulders with a slight breeze to create the music of a rustle in the leaves as the shadows slowly lengthened in the company of she who as discretion dictates will remain nameless. ---------------------- ive just ordered a copse

For God’s sake! Have we really sunk so low as to allowing undertakers touting for business onto this forum?
 
For God’s sake! Have we really sunk so low as to allowing undertakers touting for business onto this forum?

Nothing wrong with undertakers on TFF, plenty of suitably morbid posters in this place so they will be in good company. I don't have anything against undertakers being here, I mean we allow Fastrac owners/drivers here and we all know what level of social deviants they are.
 

DeeGee

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Location
North East Wales
I know it’s totally politically incorrect, and I really do mean no offence. But why employ someone in a wheelchair if you need to travel across acres of rough land just to arrive there and prove that the occupant can plant a tree on perfectly good farmland that will henceforth be totally unproductive for food?

By all means plant trees in any areas that are suitable for them, and never exclude those who may be in any way disadvantaged. Let them plant trees in field corners, wasteland, brown field sites etc. But surely not on prime farmland?

But this of course is the BBC. So of course we must always toe that all inclusive liberal line.

It brings to mind the apposite adage that ‘A well fed man has many problems. A starving man has only one.’
 

Fast Farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
I don't see what the big issue is, I've been planting trees and hedges for 20+ years and it's the best thing I've done for the farm, cattle have cover, they eat the crab apples on the floor, loads of birds summer and winter, I've made gallons and gallons of cider and fruit wines, we have an abundance of fire wood usually after the gales, the list goes on.. its the only week I HAVENT shouted at the tv.
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
I don't see what the big issue is, I've been planting trees and hedges for 20+ years and it's the best thing I've done for the farm, cattle have cover, they eat the crab apples on the floor, loads of birds summer and winter, I've made gallons and gallons of cider and fruit wines, we have an abundance of fire wood usually after the gales, the list goes on.. its the only week I HAVENT shouted at the tv.
Have you planted whole fields with close spaced trees like they were doing?
 

Fast Farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Have you planted whole fields with close spaced trees like they were doing?
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I've taken the wettest part of a field and planted a woodland, I've taken back nearly all the corners of the fields 50acres in total where the tractor and round baler can't turn without snapping a pto shaft, railed them off and planted little coppies, I'm now planting trees within the field dotted around to bring a bit of life back, I'm fed up of looking at grass
 

delilah

Member
We don't seem to have anyone to get this stuff across

Quite.

https://ahdb.org.uk/environment-faqs

https://www.countrysideonline.co.uk...friendly-farming-the-facts-about-british-meat

Both the AHDB and the NFU say that cows are destroying the planet, but if we keep cutting cow numbers and planting trees then all will be good with the world.
If a Countryfile researcher read those links, they would think that they were giving an entirely accurate representation of farmers views.
Why, exactly, is everyone on here moaning about Countryfile ?
 

delilah

Member
all the rainforest beef will have been aged on the ship coming across the Atlantic. Not as though meat packers here can hang beef properly, or stupormarkets educate their customers, or anything.

This is just one of many examples of why the 'produced to our standards' campaign is doomed. Brazil, or Texas, or Botswana, will say to Tesco that it can produce all the beef they need at a lower cost than we can, to our standards, and that it will be hung for 3 weeks by the time it gets here, doing their job for them. What's not to like ?
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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