Denmark is going to tax Livestock

[Granite Farmer]

Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture

Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

www.ft.com

 

[Vader]

So it begins ..

 

[delilah]

Arla clearly done a cracking job of educating the politicians.

 

[Hilly]

Arla clearly done a cracking job of educating the politicians.

I watched a documentary about Arla , all arla employees well dressed looked affluent well paid , the. They went around the farms peasants up the knees is sh!t working 24/7 . The german dairy farming arla family were about in tears they were getting shafted that hard , german farms were rough .

 

[Henarar]

Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture

Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

www.ft.com

have they no gumption at all, need more cattle to stop warming not less.

 

[Vader]

have they no gumption at all, need more cattle to stop warming not less.

yeah but most the western govs are going with the agenda..

 

[Hill Ground]

Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture

Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

www.ft.com

Can someone paste the article for us non subscribers please

 

[Nearly]

They're going to tax us all into poverty and then wonder where the money went.

One of my favourite sci-fi stories.

https://www.tnellen.com/westside/harrison.pdf

 

[delilah]

I watched a documentary about Arla , all arla employees well dressed looked affluent well paid , the. They went around the farms peasants up the knees is sh!t working 24/7 . The german dairy farming arla family were about in tears they were getting shafted that hard , german farms were rough .

As the Arla chap on here has explained, they have a policy of being 'retailer led'. ie the cartel say "jump", Arla say "how high ?". Whatever they may have said in public about this tax, behind closed doors they will have been in agreement.

 

[Hilly]

As the Arla chap on here has explained, they have a policy of being 'retailer led'. ie the cartel say "jump", Arla say "how high ?". Whatever they may have said in public about this tax, behind closed doors they will have been in agreement.

My take on it was the working conditions and pay looked substantially better at the dairy as the farm ! If i had to choose id be working at the dairy not farming

 

[Skimmer]

These people manage to get themselves into committees and onto steering groups forcing a bias environmental agenda, once there're over 50% they force everything there way. We have similar problems with IDB, farmers don't bother attending left wing councillors out vote farmers, then farmers moan about the decisions taken.

 

[toquark]

These people manage to get themselves into committees and onto steering groups forcing a bias environmental agenda, once there're over 50% they force everything there way. We have similar problems with IDB, farmers don't bother attending left wing councillors out vote farmers, then farmers moan about the decisions taken.

The loony minorities have been very very effective at making democratic institutions so intolerable for sensible people, they’ve driven them out. They’ve completely infested and now control institutions from community councils, to boardrooms to cabinet tables across the west.

We’re f**ked.

 

[Hilly]

I hate the way things have gone life is crap framing in this country now utterly crap ..

 

[Flatland guy]

Surely Arla must see the writing on the wall, eventually if no livestock meat or milk no product for Arla means no business or haven't Arla thought it all through

 

[DeeGee]

Surely Arla must see the writing on the wall, eventually if no livestock meat or milk no product for Arla means no business or haven't Arla thought it all through

What are the economics and the practical reality of importing cheaper milk from other countries? Genuine question, as I haven’t a clue about it.

 

[serf]

I hate the way things have gone life is crap framing in this country now utterly crap ..

And it's all happened so rapidly , feels like overnight non of us agreed or want this BS ( no pun intended ) ...

 

[Flatland guy]

What are the economics and the practical reality of importing cheaper milk from other countries? Genuine question, as I haven’t a clue about it.

Personally milk is the one thing I have not heard imported/exported as such most is made into cheese etc then imported/ exported but happy to be corrected.

 

[Grass And Grain]

Article says they can reduce the €100 tax to zero if they do x,y,z. Presumably that's methane inhibitors, covered slurry stores, etc.

 

[Bald Rick]

Article says they can reduce the €100 tax to zero if they do x,y,z. Presumably that's methane inhibitors, covered slurry stores, etc.

Have to scrape their sheds minimum of 12 times a day.

Who's counting?

Perhaps @farmer on a bike can enlighten us as to whether Arla intend to work with their customers to impose similar in the UK?

 

[Jackov Altraids]

What should our strategy be if they try such an absurd, twisted and flawed thing here?

For every £10 tax, saw down a tree, remove a metre of hedge or block a road for 10 minutes?