wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
This is a difficult one l, I only know about arable.
But when ahdb etc publish stats saying the average price it costs to grow a tonne of wheat is £150/t there is something drastically wrong. It should cost no where near that. Part of me thinks the real subsidy beneficiaries are the various input suppliers machinery, chemical, fert etc.
It seems the ahdb s main aim (not their fault) at the moment is teaching 50 year old farmers at monitor farm meetings how much a tractor costs to run and telling people to make obvious savings that should already be in place on a well run business. They do some great work, but could plough more money into even better work without all this obvious dead weight.
Foward planning I am not expecting to get anything.
I’m quite happy they publish figures like that. Imagine the pressure supermarkets would be putting on prices if they knew wheat didn’t cost that much too grow