Farming best industry of future?

[Henarar]

thank goodness for farmers then

 

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My thought is that it is a good industry outside the UK, not in the UK where newts and bats and tuberculin-riddled badgers and wetlands are of far higher priority then industry, yet land and labour is very expensive.
The place to farm is probably Africa or, dare I say it, Ukraine, where land is fertile and cheap with potential for farming on a massive industrial scale using the most productive kit available.

Agree 100%. Just look where the investment is going into the Ag industry. Recent figures show that in the 1980s one third of all seed/agchem manufacturer R&D was going into European Ag; in the 1990s it was around 25%. Today it's less than 8%.

If you want to farm with the best prospects head outside the EU. Inside the EU we are in danger of becoming a museum piece.

 

[Penmoel]

A friend of mine was at the NFU conference last week, his impression was that farmers in England were in a bouyant mood with optimism.

Return to Wales was like coming down to earth, a govt that does not give a sh!t about agriculture since there are no votes in it for them.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Can you pass the active test

 

[smbflame]

farmer will always get shafted ,so just widen your business ventures ,dont be fooled into thinking its easy money compared to banking, they wont let you get too powerful , perhaps its just me i hate being controlled , yes they will always want to eat but at what cost lol (GM crops will become common place as we loose our chemical armery) more control ?

 

[GTB]

A friend of mine was at the NFU conference last week, his impression was that farmers in England were in a bouyant mood with optimism.

Return to Wales was like coming down to earth, a govt that does not give a sh!t about agriculture since there are no votes in it for them.

Things are looking positively gloomy in Wales. Up until Alun Davies I was always grateful to be farming in Wales rather than England but he doesn't miss a chance to kick us in the teeth.