Wealthy moorland arable farmers looks like it. 
Drought
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Got to be a very rare breed!Wealthy moorland arable farmers looks like it.
It isn’t.
Combine burning and the chance is you loose the standing crop as well. Standing crops come under deadstock on my insurance. Was checking my policy to see if the amount of cover was adequate for todays prices.
Wolds Beef
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Finished here!! At least 3 weeks ahead! My contractors have been really good. Sat in an Axial Flow with 30ft cut a couple of weeks ago.awesome!! Went to France many years ago to see them been built in there previous colours, 30 ft had not been dreamt of.
WB
WB
- Location
- S E Glos
We have a nice view across the south Cotswolds towards the Marlborough Downs and from the kitchen window I can see two, maybe three, field fires
Mr Mackay
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- Location
- HMP Slade , Shropshire
The Loire river in France (supposedly)
- Location
- somerset
we find ourselves in a funny position, half of Europe in a drought, as is half of the UK, some parts of the USA desperately needing rain, and grain only trickling out of Ukraine, bound to be other areas weather, or war effected as well. And the greens blame ag, instead of fossil fuels, because people will listen about polluting farmers, but not their precious holiday or car.
We are entering a new era, where food supply is hardly meeting demand, and in poor countries, starvation is looming. The events above, will limit food production, and no doubt will create 'shortages'.
And what are we faced with, a series of environmental standards, or rules, all designed to protect the planet, at the expense of food production, weather events will occur somewhere, every yr, as will war disrupt supplies, sanctions, embargoes etc. And then, they hit us with high fert costs, which will mean less use, and less production.
Environmentalist's, and the politicians who are enchanted by them, really think this is somehow 'good', reducing pollution, etc etc. Have they considered, where the food to feed people, will come from ? Do they care if their policies cause people to die of starvation ? Perhaps they think the sacrifice is worth the result ?
The politicians are mainly ignorant of realism, cannot see further than their noses, and only act, if its in their interests, and to be fair, most of them haven't really got a clue, about how life functions, out side of their cosy little occupation. I would guarantee more scheming has gone on, to kick Boris out, than the countries food supply, idiotic.
Back to the drought, its not nice, it hurts us as farmers, and its a damn nuisance, but it has one big saving grace, its reducing the supply of food, which will be further reduced by less fert being used. But, that's ok, we are saving the world, from what ? So, for us, as farmers, less food production, on what could be a serious amount, will reflect in higher prices for our product, and that, is good news.
Food supply will come crashing down, if a big weather, or war, effect occurs anywhere in the major grain growing areas. The politicians are sleep walking into a crisis, they haven't even thought about, and being led down a path, by the environmental lobby, to reduce supplies further. Dread to think what will happen, when the penny finally drops.
Political interference seldom works.
We are entering a new era, where food supply is hardly meeting demand, and in poor countries, starvation is looming. The events above, will limit food production, and no doubt will create 'shortages'.
And what are we faced with, a series of environmental standards, or rules, all designed to protect the planet, at the expense of food production, weather events will occur somewhere, every yr, as will war disrupt supplies, sanctions, embargoes etc. And then, they hit us with high fert costs, which will mean less use, and less production.
Environmentalist's, and the politicians who are enchanted by them, really think this is somehow 'good', reducing pollution, etc etc. Have they considered, where the food to feed people, will come from ? Do they care if their policies cause people to die of starvation ? Perhaps they think the sacrifice is worth the result ?
The politicians are mainly ignorant of realism, cannot see further than their noses, and only act, if its in their interests, and to be fair, most of them haven't really got a clue, about how life functions, out side of their cosy little occupation. I would guarantee more scheming has gone on, to kick Boris out, than the countries food supply, idiotic.
Back to the drought, its not nice, it hurts us as farmers, and its a damn nuisance, but it has one big saving grace, its reducing the supply of food, which will be further reduced by less fert being used. But, that's ok, we are saving the world, from what ? So, for us, as farmers, less food production, on what could be a serious amount, will reflect in higher prices for our product, and that, is good news.
Food supply will come crashing down, if a big weather, or war, effect occurs anywhere in the major grain growing areas. The politicians are sleep walking into a crisis, they haven't even thought about, and being led down a path, by the environmental lobby, to reduce supplies further. Dread to think what will happen, when the penny finally drops.
Political interference seldom works.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
What I find so odd is that it is worldwide. Sri Lanka are a bit ahead of the game, not going so well there.
So why the fooooook is the grain price falling ? Should be £800 +
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- somerset
that will be coveniently ignored, or blamed on ''other'' things.
nothing will be allowed, to break the fanatical zealots idea of how things have to be, that is, of course, till they cannot get enough food, either by price, or availability.
That's when it will be the farmers fault, we didn't listen to them, when in reality, they should have been listening to us.
grain price is set by a load of nerds, who know SFA about farming, sat around computers, in Chicago, getting very rich trading in futures. Not sure that is anything to do with reality.
But price of grain is well off its highs, and l have little doubt it will creep up, it is in the end, dependant on supply and demand, and supply has matched demand, so those nerds, and politicians, presume it will stay that way, because for decades it has been in over supply.
one could have a laugh about it, if it wasn't so serious.
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borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Erm, when NEXT DOORS sheep break in ,and come to our water troughs, to drink. THAT'S when you know its dryWhen sheep regularly come to the water trough to drink that's when you know its dry .
Next on the list is water tanks to catch rain water here , big ones too.....
I don't begrudge the poor buggers a drink, but the ar$ehole owner should be had up for it,imo.
Just heard Natural England Tony Juniper on radio 4 telling the current water shortage will be largely mitigated by beavers and returning through ELMs to medieval wetlands and drainage. Natural England knows best!!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Morons united
grainboy
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
What this article,
Beavers can stop flooding and drought,
Yea right,
Beavers can stop flooding and drought,
Yea right,
- Location
- somerset
l have been following articles and reports, on how beavers are doing a fantastic job, of regenerating arid soils. Leaky damns can do the same thing, very successfully.
But the former is in USA and the latter in Australia. Would they work in the UK ? l doubt it.
That doesn't stop some idiot deciding it would work here though, and that's the problem, when it doesn't, nobody will admit to making a mistake, so we are left with a failed experiment, with no control over it.
This country is to highly populated for many types of rewilding, its a dream, which will mainly fail, some might work. The reason why many of these animals became extinct in the UK, was because they were competing against food production.
If we take otters for an example, they are lovely creatures, nice videos of family groups, and a sure sign our rivers are less polluted. The other side of the coin, they decimate fish stocks, and there is ongoing work, re populating our rivers, with trout and salmon, again, a sign of cleaner rivers. One could almost guarantee, when fish stocks go down, it won't be the otter, it will be the farmer.
As we see food inflation soar, as it will do, rewilding support will dwindle down to the fanatical zealous faction, to whom its a holy grail. Every living thing needs nature to control its population, to keep it in a natural balance. Every animal that is 'protected' see's its population explode, usually to the disadvantage of something else.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Fair enough they will, prevent flooding, as long as your downstream of them
Lost interest in all this now. As long as I have a plot to grow most of my own food, fuk everyone else. Let them eat cake beaver. Meddlers have too much time on their hands these days. Furloughing has accelerated the nonsense factory.
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- somerset
A slightly positive point about the drought, l order diesel every month, and pay for the last load.
Been chasing me for payment today, we don't need fuel, therefore we have used 750 litres less than normal.
rather have used it though, and have the fodder we should have had, by using it .
Been chasing me for payment today, we don't need fuel, therefore we have used 750 litres less than normal.
rather have used it though, and have the fodder we should have had, by using it .