I am a one man band ( wife loves it when I say that
), so direct selling 300 lambs a month in a box would be slightly more labour intensive than watching a wagon loading them up and taking them to an abattoir.
Farming without subsidies
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), so direct selling 300 lambs a month in a box would be slightly more labour intensive than watching a wagon loading them up and taking them to an abattoir.
Not complaining about prices or anything else really just hate double standards,very few industries don’t get some form of subsidies in one way or another but our costs are unduly high because the standards that our government place on us while importing stuff to keep the price we receive down.if anything comes here grown or reared to our standards with the products and technology we are allowed then bring it on,most can compete with itWell done for fighting the good fight
Have a good first day back tomorrow
And don’t worry there are some
Of us cracking on living in the 21st century making money and not complaining about prices.
Though the weather maybe a different matter!
Oh well, I've decided to " think outside the box ", " change my mindset ", " make my business more resilient ", " put more effort in ", and go in for forging money.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
It’s the arrogance that you are perfect and the most efficient farmer you can be so you MUST pay me more or that is sooo depressing. Let alone the question of WHY
Is that directed at me?
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
No. Those demanding more from
The supermarket and @7610 super q mostly
The supermarket and @7610 super q mostly
glasshouse
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- lothians
I cant believe someone who works in completely subsidised occupation for the common good cant see the connection to price support for farmers.
The NHS and the agriculture act were born in the same year, and for the same reasons.
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So you think the state should own all land and the farmers should just be state employees?
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- Owaka, New Zealand
Aren't they already?
glasshouse
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- lothians
Where did i say that?
Britain had a free market in food from 1846 till 1933, which resulted in widespread malnourishment, abandoned land and unemployment.
The govt of the day werejustified in trying to change that as
40% of army recruits were found unfit, mainly from rickets, that led to change .
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- Northumberland
Buy 500 jersey x,rent or buy a chalk downland farm in southern england,milk once a day and sell your milk to a cheese producer
,and watch the money roll in.It will be great until Dr.Fox does some of these amazing trade deals with the orange one,and imports 000 s tonnes of their stockpiled cheese into Britain at rock bottom prices.After that you just have to worry about your milk buyer/Mr cheese producer offering you 15p/litre take it or leave it.
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- Fife
Cover the whole farm in electric fencing technograze style. Finish dairy x calves off grass.
lazy farmer
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- som/dor border
Steady on your not conforming to the norm
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- Fife
Steady on your not conforming to the norm
I never have.
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
Rent the whole lot out for spuds and take a year off/get a job. Have the spud grower put everything back to grass as part of the deal.
How many ewes could you run?
Dairy heifer's?
Beef? Could you make enough $ buying in spring selling in autumn, no housing, low cost?
Fairly steady work wise I'd have thought.
Or if you want a busier life milk cows?
This is such old ground.
Ground hog post alert.
Farmers produce raw ingredients, processors produce food from these, trucks deliver it and shops sell it. Without one part, the others fail.
Oh, hang on. The processor has choice of supply. They can get it any old where, process it and then the retailer arranges delivery and sells it. Outbreak of Ricketts avoided due to modernity, phew.
Subsidy for ASDA (wall mart) anyone? After all they are doing the feeding....
Ground hog post alert.
Farmers produce raw ingredients, processors produce food from these, trucks deliver it and shops sell it. Without one part, the others fail.
Oh, hang on. The processor has choice of supply. They can get it any old where, process it and then the retailer arranges delivery and sells it. Outbreak of Ricketts avoided due to modernity, phew.
Subsidy for ASDA (wall mart) anyone? After all they are doing the feeding....
Sounds so easy it's amazing everybody is not doing it
We going to have to do something different as the CAP has been such a failure. Oh hang on we have a plentiful supply of food that costs the public a fraction of their income compared to a generation ago produced in some of the safest and sustainable ways as an industry I'm ashamed we could have done better
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- NSW, Newstralya
haha - before I got bored with it, I used to suggest subs for Tescos / Sainsburys every time these threads popped up. After all, THEY are the ones that feed people, if everyone is so worried about food security, cheap food & feeding the world . . .
needless to say, no one agreed with me
farmerm
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- Shropshire
That’s on Mr Corbyn’s list of priorities if he gets into power
Does that mean 9 to 5 and weekends off?That’s on Mr Corbyn’s list of priorities if he gets into power
If so he gets my vote
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