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FARMERS’ SURVEY FOR MASTER’S DISSERTATION - Socio-economic evaluation of mixed farming system as an agroecological contribution to climate resilience
- Thread starter Olayele Oluwaseto
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primmiemoo
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- Devon
We aren't all from Escrow in Uberwald, Oyalele, so don't panic! 
I'm not sure if I qualify to meet the criteria for your survey, sorry, but fwiw, I feel that we will need to be flexible in our farming as much as possible. If climate change were just a matter of being a bit more Mediterranean I'd soon be growing Durum wheat on the soil here, that's wondrously moisture retaining.
The trouble is that sea level rise will dictate far more than a change in weather.
Short-term, a reason for not incorporating arable in the system here is because any arable land that's available around here is snapped up for wholecrop production for dairy ~ which works to a different pattern to mixed beef and sheep.
I'm not sure if I qualify to meet the criteria for your survey, sorry, but fwiw, I feel that we will need to be flexible in our farming as much as possible. If climate change were just a matter of being a bit more Mediterranean I'd soon be growing Durum wheat on the soil here, that's wondrously moisture retaining.
The trouble is that sea level rise will dictate far more than a change in weather.
Short-term, a reason for not incorporating arable in the system here is because any arable land that's available around here is snapped up for wholecrop production for dairy ~ which works to a different pattern to mixed beef and sheep.
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Coventry
Cut the OP some slack. There's less than 1% of the population who understand farming, i'm just grateful whenever a student wants to look at the industry however poor their current knowledge. I'm sending him/her (sorry) some bumf to stimulate their interest.
Thank you so much for your support and encouragement. Already learning so much on this amazing platform.
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Coventry
We aren't all from Escrow in Uberwald, Oyalele, so don't panic!
I'm not sure if I qualify to meet the criteria for your survey, sorry, but fwiw, I feel that we will need to be flexible in our farming as much as possible. If climate change were just a matter of being a bit more Mediterranean I'd soon be growing Durum wheat on the soil here, that's wondrously moisture retaining.
The trouble is that sea level rise will dictate far more than a change in weather.
Short-term, a reason for not incorporating arable in the system here is because any arable land that's available around here is snapped up for wholecrop production for dairy ~ which works to a different pattern to mixed beef and sheep.
Thank you indeed for your encouragement and feedback.
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Coventry
Hello everyone, many thanks to those who have filled the survey so far. However, I am still looking for more participants to take part in the survey. Your time and feedback are indeed appreciated. Thank you.
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Location
- Coventry
Hi all, many thanks to those who have filled the survey. Please, I am still looking for more participants, and I would appreciate anyone taking the time to take this survey. Thanks again.
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Coventry
Hi all, many thanks to everyone who has filled the survey. This is now the last week of the survey and I would really appreciate some more participants. Thanks again.
Well, as my son got his Masters at Cov, I felt I had to...
Yet again, it sadly felt as the questions were phrased with a poor knowledge of the subject matter, as others have pointed out. However, the discussions here will help Olayele in his researches.
Yet again, it sadly felt as the questions were phrased with a poor knowledge of the subject matter, as others have pointed out. However, the discussions here will help Olayele in his researches.
Cut the OP some slack. There's less than 1% of the population who understand farming, i'm just grateful whenever a student wants to look at the industry however poor their current knowledge. I'm sending him/her (sorry) some bumf to stimulate their interest
True. That is why I am always happy to help students and researchers in their studies.
I have got 2 coming on the farm in the coming months which is always interesting, although what some of them make of a thick, miserable old Shropshire farmer is open to debate... At one time, it seems as if half of HAC were on the place studying bugs
- Location
- Devon
I'm sorry. I've tried to do the survey but it simply isn't possible to answer the questions with the choice of answers.
yeah he's been up against it trying to dig info out of these crusty old farmers. He'll go far with his diplomacy and courtesy.Cut the OP some slack. There's less than 1% of the population who understand farming, i'm just grateful whenever a student wants to look at the industry however poor their current knowledge. I'm sending him/her (sorry) some bumf to stimulate their interest
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Coventry
Thank you for your time and encouragement
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Coventry
Many thanks for your effort
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Location
- Coventry
Thank you for your kind words. It's been a good learning curve on this amazing platform
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Location
- Coventry
True. That is why I am always happy to help students and researchers in their studies.
I have got 2 coming on the farm in the coming months which is always interesting, although what some of them make of a thick, miserable old Shropshire farmer is open to debate... At one time, it seems as if half of HAC were on the place studying bugs
Many thanks for helping us out with our researches.
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- Sedgefield
You could always try going to meet farmers in real life and ask them your questions
Yorkshire Show is next week there will be a few there
Local livestock market is full of them
Yorkshire Show is next week there will be a few there
Local livestock market is full of them
Olayele Oluwaseto
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- Location
- Coventry
Surely I will at some point though not for next week's show. Thank you indeed.
- Location
- Scottsih Borders
3.Your age group?
18-30yrs
31-45yrs
46-65yrs
65yrs and above
Question 3 above commits the cardinal sin of most surveys.
Many, or perhaps most, family farms are run by a combination of folk from at least two, and possibly all four, of the above age groups. And 18 is too old for starters - there will be umpteen 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 year-olds who have definite ideas of what Dad or Grandad should be doing or buying.
I suspect most respondents to any survey will be from the older generation. The younger folk are out working, while the wrinklies are in the office doing the paperwork; and naturally they will give their own opinions..
Hence the erroneous conclusion that farms are run by folk who are too old and feeble, and must be replaced by new and younger entrants. Whereas in reality, the older generation are trying to let the younger generation have their say, but without spending the farm into ruination.
Farming is a complicated business: difficult to understand by outsiders.
18-30yrs
31-45yrs
46-65yrs
65yrs and above
Question 3 above commits the cardinal sin of most surveys.
Many, or perhaps most, family farms are run by a combination of folk from at least two, and possibly all four, of the above age groups. And 18 is too old for starters - there will be umpteen 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 year-olds who have definite ideas of what Dad or Grandad should be doing or buying.
I suspect most respondents to any survey will be from the older generation. The younger folk are out working, while the wrinklies are in the office doing the paperwork; and naturally they will give their own opinions..
Hence the erroneous conclusion that farms are run by folk who are too old and feeble, and must be replaced by new and younger entrants. Whereas in reality, the older generation are trying to let the younger generation have their say, but without spending the farm into ruination.
Farming is a complicated business: difficult to understand by outsiders.
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- Ledbury, Herefordshire
Does it?
Wish someone had told me this when I was doing my masters, I might have hoped that it would do more than be gathering dust on a bookshelf somewhere in the depths of the University of Bangor's library......
No disrespect to the OP, but it is far more likely that beyond his or her supervisor, nobody will ever read it, ever.
Were any papers to be forthcoming from the study, that might be a different story, but again, whilst this is more likely to happen from an MSc thesis than a BSc one, it is still pretty unlikely - this isn't PhD work.
- Location
- Ledbury, Herefordshire
Surveys ought to be anonymous (GDRP), interviews are much trickier to work with/eradicate bias from and quantify, which then means you are into the bounds of qualitative research, which is even harder to pull any kind of meaningful result from.
Disclaimer: I know some people love qualitative stuff. I hate it. I'm quite old-school in my approach, insomuch as I am a natural scientist, not a social one and therefore I like data.