End of the Road for Small Livestock Farms?

[Henarar]

Ha, farming in the uk is mostly a hobby
Mainly for the tax breaks, shooting, and subsidies

You wouldn't want to make anything or build up anything and leave anything to the kids, best just a hobby

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Ha, farming in the uk is mostly a hobby
Mainly for the tax breaks, shooting, and subsidies

Official figures show even many larger farms support their bottom line by non food diversification enterprises so you're probably right!

 

[Tarw Coch]

heck, am I the only one here farming for a living?

 

[Hilly]

heck, am I the only one here farming for a living?

No sadly I have to as well

 

[Derrick Hughes]

No sadly I have to as well [emoji23]

How lucky you are ,
I have a thousand jobs
Well it feels like somedays , still have to fit in 100 miles biking week to protect my mind and heath
Which takes me on to how dad started
Left school with just the clothes on his back
Got a job on a farm estate at Betley .Worked nights on Crewe Station loading goods vans and also had a log round , cutting trees down with an axe and cross cut saw , doctor told him if he did not slow up it would kill him , so he found 30 acre farm to rent Married Mum and put her in charge of milking [emoji1787]

 

[Tarw Coch]

How lucky you are ,
I have a thousand jobs
Well it feels like somedays , still have to fit in 100 miles biking week to protect my mind and heath
Which takes me on to how dad started
Left school with just the clothes on his back
Got a job on a farm estate at Betley .Worked nights on Crewe Station loading goods vans and also had a log round , cutting trees down with an axe and cross cut saw , doctor told him if he did not slow up it would kill him , so he found 30 acre farm to rent Married Mum and put her in charge of milking [emoji1787]

Aye, I’ve got a thousand jobs that need doing, could do with a year off farming to catch up

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Aye, I’ve got a thousand jobs that need doing, could do with a year off farming to catch up [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

How about a TFF bike team [emoji1787]

 

[Y Fan Wen]

And China keep going as normal undercutting all

Depends if you believe President Xi when he stated the goal of C free by 2060.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Actually they are adding new renewable tech faster than most, it’s just population demands and old polices they had that is messing them up with all these coal fired power stations, I personally think they will play ball, because we can tax them one way or another if they don’t.
The other reason I belive they will is because they are taking climate change seriously at least they seem to be making great efforts in that direction planting Forrest’s etc.

When we were being shown round the 3 gorges dam system, the guide told us there were plans for 5 more dams on the Yangtze further upstream. There are 32 generators of 700Mw each. Each one is about the same as Trawsynydd's twin reactors.

 

[glasshouse]

When we were being shown round the 3 gorges dam system, the guide told us there were plans for 5 more dams on the Yangtze further upstream. There are 32 generators of 700Mw each. Each one is about the same as Trawsynydd's twin reactors.

Was watching domething on utube last nt about all the millions of chinese who have died from dam bursts

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Was watching domething on utube last nt about all the millions of chinese who have died from dam bursts

This was a flood before the dam was built:
'The flood of 1931 covered more than 30,000 square miles (77,700 square km)—including the cities of Nanjing and Wuhan—killed more than 300,000 people, and left 40,000,000 more homeless.'