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<blockquote data-quote="down n'dirty" data-source="post: 7859970" data-attributes="member: 6247"><p>I do wonder who is going to farm the land and produce the food the country needs, in years to come. The area in which I live has quite a few farmers approaching retirement age or even well past it, with no successors to follow on. In my own case and those of my immediate neighbours, our children have all decided to follow easier and more lucrative careers- and who can blame them when farming has been so poorly rewarded in recent years. For those of us who will remain,I think the tide is finally turning, as more and more land is taken out of production, the world population contiues to grow, fertiliser costs increase and our chemical armoury is continually being depleted. The years of a cheap and under appreciated food supply might finally be coming to an end- lets hope that there will be young farmers around who want and can afford to enter the industry, that can take advantage of it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="down n'dirty, post: 7859970, member: 6247"] I do wonder who is going to farm the land and produce the food the country needs, in years to come. The area in which I live has quite a few farmers approaching retirement age or even well past it, with no successors to follow on. In my own case and those of my immediate neighbours, our children have all decided to follow easier and more lucrative careers- and who can blame them when farming has been so poorly rewarded in recent years. For those of us who will remain,I think the tide is finally turning, as more and more land is taken out of production, the world population contiues to grow, fertiliser costs increase and our chemical armoury is continually being depleted. The years of a cheap and under appreciated food supply might finally be coming to an end- lets hope that there will be young farmers around who want and can afford to enter the industry, that can take advantage of it! [/QUOTE]
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