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<blockquote data-quote="PSQ" data-source="post: 7935403" data-attributes="member: 11374"><p>No mention of mixed farming, or the fact that if any of us had carried on farming like it was 1922 we wouldn't have survived the lean years between 1996 - 2007?</p><p>Bagged fert has been the only game in town, and it will remain so. For all of the 'environmentalism' thrown at farmers, not one of the experts can put the lid back on Pandoras Box / Norman Borlaugs 'Green Revolution', or explain how we feed 8 billion people with token gestures.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><u>We're farmers, not alchemists.</u> We can't produce 14,000,000 tonnes of wheat a year (etc) using only 'sound bites' and good intentions. The nation apparently demands we continue to feed 70 million people while "working towards Net Zero". If they want us to farm like it's 1922, then we'll need to almost halve the population back to 38 million (1921 census) and accept that they're going to be kept alive on pretty thin soup. Vegan diets, organic farming, regenerative farming, direct drilling, (Insert next farming fad here) etc etc; the sum of these doesn't come near to touching the sides of what we are being asked to </span></strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>achieve. </strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PSQ, post: 7935403, member: 11374"] No mention of mixed farming, or the fact that if any of us had carried on farming like it was 1922 we wouldn't have survived the lean years between 1996 - 2007? Bagged fert has been the only game in town, and it will remain so. For all of the 'environmentalism' thrown at farmers, not one of the experts can put the lid back on Pandoras Box / Norman Borlaugs 'Green Revolution', or explain how we feed 8 billion people with token gestures. [B][SIZE=4][U]We're farmers, not alchemists.[/U] We can't produce 14,000,000 tonnes of wheat a year (etc) using only 'sound bites' and good intentions. The nation apparently demands we continue to feed 70 million people while "working towards Net Zero". If they want us to farm like it's 1922, then we'll need to almost halve the population back to 38 million (1921 census) and accept that they're going to be kept alive on pretty thin soup. Vegan diets, organic farming, regenerative farming, direct drilling, (Insert next farming fad here) etc etc; the sum of these doesn't come near to touching the sides of what we are being asked to [/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4][B]achieve. [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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