Food security!!

[livestock 1]

Will they ever see sense?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

probably not, for a while at least. I think there is a whole generation, who believe in the "my truth" idea (from the Megan Markle interview) and it will take a big shock for them to realise that there is something bigger than "their truth".

 

[Hilly]

Not till their is a big issue .

 

[M-J-G]

I'd guess they might realise in the next few years.
Farming representatives aren't exactly doing much to emphasise the point.

 

[Treacle Sponge]

I'd guess they might realise in the next few years.
Farming representatives aren't exactly doing much to emphasise the point.

Food comes from supermarkets. In all the media coverage of the Ukraine (breadbasket of the world) situation, we have yet to hear anybody mention food or agriculture.

 

[ARW]

I don’t think anybody realises that you are always 3 days from starvation

 

[Hilly]

I don’t think anybody realises that you are always 3 days from starvation

At the most .

 

[yellowbelly]

Farming representatives aren't exactly doing much to emphasise the point.

This whole Ukraine thing is a humanitarian disaster and, quite rightly so, it's at the forefront of everybody's minds at the moment.

MP's and the powers that be are all standing round wringing their hands wondering what should they / shouldn't they do.
Seems there's nothing much they can do apart from making it difficult for a few of Putin's mates, who have a bit of cash tied up in London, to move it about.

IMHO, what they SHOULD be doing is getting our house back in order and securing the production of home produced food.
Not just food either, fuel, steel and manufacturing need to be brought back to these shores.
The whole 'we can buy it cheaper from abroad' b#llocks is being shown up for what it is - the road to nowhere.

 

[Bramble]

Even Sean Rickard is calling on the government to develop an overarching food strategy based on home production..

 

[Hilly]

Even Sean Rickard is calling on the government to develop an overarching food strategy based on home production..

Whos he ?

 

[Rookie]

They've had 2 warnings already that we need to be more self sufficient in not only food but energy too.
One being Brexit, and the other the covid pandemic.
They focused the government's mind for a week or so and since forgotten. All they seem bothered about is tanking land out if production for wildlife and carbon credits.
Unfortunately I don't think anything will change.

 

[Bramble]

Whos he ?

Ex NFU economist and acedemic

He has spent the last 25 years telling U.K. farmers how inefficient we are, there should be no subsidies/support for U.K. agriculture, it’s all about market forces etc etc

People like him and Dr Tim Leuning should be held accountable for some of their past comments regarding the importance of home produced food. Unfortunately policy makers seem to like listening to them

 

[kiwi pom]

No point producing more if there's not market for it though. What do you all want to produce more of?

 

[Yale]

I don’t think anybody realises that you are always 3 days from starvation

And for the government 1 day away from food riots.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What do you all want to produce more of?

Money

 

[delilah]

All these threads about food security/ self sufficiency, fine, rant and rave, throw in as many I told you so's as you want. But in the context of Govt policy, if you believe that increasing productivity needs to be a part of ELMS, you need to say how this can be achieved alongside all of the environmental goals. Because otherwise you're really not helping.

 

[Yale]

All these threads about food security/ self sufficiency, fine, rant and rave, throw in as many I told you so's as you want. But in the context of Govt policy, if you believe that increasing productivity needs to be a part of ELMS, you need to say how this can be achieved alongside all of the environmental goals. Because otherwise you're really not helping.

It’s not about ‘us’ as farmers,it’s the fact that this country‘s soft underbelly is 60% self sufficiency and falling.

Every farm that is planted with trees or rewilded is not there then to produce food.

Go woke,go broke!

 

[Gong Farmer]

Some are talking about it

 

[Highland Mule]

No point producing more if there's not market for it though. What do you all want to produce more of?

For a start-
Natural gas & electricity -> fertiliser;

then-
Food with Union flag labels on it.

 

[thorpe]

Whos he ?

we used to pay his wages "NFU" when he left he tried to make half of us redundant!