- Location
- South Wales UK
Allegedly Tarring all farmer's the same and so called all chemicals all farms put on food page 28 Daily Mail today ???
Farmer Bashing Again.
- Thread starter Still Farming
- Start date
- Location
- Breconshire
Just think of the Daily Mail as a replacement for The Dandy. 
Personally,No, not national ones deff..........then told the Mrs not to bother with the North Devon journal anymore, (the market reports where actually useful
) because of the cost ....now got nothin to light the log burner with..... ....glossy junk mail (even fresh from the posties hand ) is carp for that .....Yeah, that stuff does not burn at all. God knows what it's made of. Bailer cord and corn flakes packets are best. Ir if you have an Amazon Prime junkie in the house, they provide good lighting stuff.Personally,No, not national ones deff..........then told the Mrs not to bother with the North Devon journal anymore, (the market reports where actually useful
FonterraFarmer
Member
- Location
- Waikato, New Zealand
No , it should have perforated edges when they make it as it would be more useful as bog roll than as a form of media for informing people about whats going on in the world!
caveman
Member
- Location
- East Sussex.
You should eat your corn flake boxes.
They contain far greater nutrition than the contents.
We pickup a freebie paper to light the fire withPersonally,No, not national ones deff..........then told the Mrs not to bother with the North Devon journal anymore, (the market reports where actually useful
So who"s going to put the farmers point of view across,we have a massive industry but no fecker to put the truth across
I wrote a reply from my office today. We had to say they had got their facts wrong so I doubt they will print it.
The journalist had rung our comms dept last week wanting to know how many sprays crops of wheat etc were given. Our comms explained it was impossible to generalise and we didn't see our members spray records - nb how our 'journalist' at the Mail had regurgitated this as we refused to supply the information.
It's also worth noting the typical farm wheat crop described received four slug pellets applications - I reckon that's illegal.
Records were years out of date. Referred back to 2013
Yes
Yes Dave Goulson had been hawking this stuff around as some sort of proof of something for some time. The TDS major label says maximum of two applications.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
The chemical records they printed were supposedly given by a farmer, who wanted to remain unnamed. But he wasn't an "intensive" arable farmer. He certainly grew a costly crop!!
awkward
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- Location
- kerry ireland
it's simply lazy journalism. and farmer bashing is now popular within certain groups. and with no burden of proof required . it's enough mearly to suggest
- Location
- South Wales UK
Good and bad everywhere but just upsetting if All one sided .
I know "free speech" etc., But with huge cost of chemicals who would or does "splash" it around willy nilly ????
Anyone who ever grew anything knows, if its out there be it soil ,root leaf,head or ear or fruit it will attack ,eat or infest to reduce or wipe out your hard work crop without correct approved and timely pesticide use if needed .
I would imagine there are stats.out there on this and guess a huge % of farmer's with different enterprises never use anything at all anyhow !
I know "free speech" etc., But with huge cost of chemicals who would or does "splash" it around willy nilly ????
Anyone who ever grew anything knows, if its out there be it soil ,root leaf,head or ear or fruit it will attack ,eat or infest to reduce or wipe out your hard work crop without correct approved and timely pesticide use if needed .
I would imagine there are stats.out there on this and guess a huge % of farmer's with different enterprises never use anything at all anyhow !
n.f.u 's jobSo who"s going to put the farmers point of view across,we have a massive industry but no fecker to put the truth across
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
